Changes in IBM® Enterprise COBOL for z/OS,
Version 4 Release 2
- New and enhanced XML PARSE capabilities are available when you
use the z/OS® System
Services XML parser:
- You can parse documents with validation against an XML schema
when you use the VALIDATING phrase of the XML PARSE statement.
- The performance of nonvalidating parsing with the
XMLPARSE(XMLSS) compiler option is improved compared to the performance
of nonvalidating parsing with the XMLPARSE(XMLSS) compiler option
in Enterprise COBOL Version
4 Release 1.
- Character processing is enhanced for any XML document that contains
a reference to a character that is not included in the single-byte
EBCDIC code page of the document.
- A facility for customizing compiler messages (changing their severity
or suppressing them), including FIPS (FLAGSTD) messages, is made possible
by a new suboption, MSGEXIT, of the EXIT compiler option.
- A new compiler option, BLOCK0, activates an implicit BLOCK CONTAINS
0 clause for all eligible QSAM files in your program.
- The underscore character (_) is now supported in user-defined
words such as data-names and program-names. Underscores are also supported
in the literal form of program-names.
- If you use the integrated CICS® translator,
the compiler listing will now show the CICS options
that are in effect.
- Enterprise COBOL applications
that use object-oriented syntax for Java™ interoperability
are now supported with Java 5
and Java 6 in addition to the Java SDK 1.4.2.