ILE COBOL enhancements in the second half of the year 2026 provided through PTFs
- You can use reference modification for the receiving field of the STRING statement and the sending field of the UNSTRING statement.
- See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_76/rzasb/strgid3.htm and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_76/rzasb/unstri.htm
PTFs for PGMINFO(MONOCASE) Release PTFs to provide support for STDINZEXT 7.6 5770WDS (PTF number to be provided later) 7.6 TGTRLS(*PRV) 5770WDS (PTF number to be provided later) 7.5 5770WDS (PTF number to be provided later)
ILE COBOL enhancements in the first half of the year 2024 provided through PTFs
- With new process option STDINZEXT, a data item with no VALUE clause is initialized to the default value according to its type.
- See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/rzasb/prcstdi.htm
PTFs for PGMINFO(MONOCASE) Release PTFs to provide support for STDINZEXT 7.5 5770WDS SI85894 7.4 5770WDS SJ00634
ILE COBOL enhancements in the first half of the year 2023 provided through PTFs
- The COPY REPLACING statement and REPLACE statement have new LEADING and TRAILING phrases that enable only the leading or trailing occurrence of a character or string to be replaced.
- See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/rzasb/copy.htm and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/rzasb/repl.htm
PTFs for PGMINFO(MONOCASE) Release PTFs to provide support for LEADING and TRAILING 7.5 5770WDS SI83521 7.4 5770WDS SI83503
ILE COBOL enhancements in the second half of the year 2022 provided through PTFs
- Preserve case sensitivity of identifiers for COBOL web services by specifying the new NOMONOCASE value for the PGMINFO option on the PROCESS statement.
- See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/rzasb/fpgminfo.htm
PTFs for PGMINFO(MONOCASE) Release PTFs to provide support for PGMINFO(MONOCASE) 7.5 5770WDS SI79810 7.4 5770WDS SI77581
- The new TGTCCSID compiler option was added to the compile commands CRTBNDCBL and CRTCBLMOD. The user can specify the CCSID that the Unicode source is converted to for compilation.
- See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/rzase/parmod.htm#tgtccsid
PTfs for TGTCCSID support Release PTFs to provide the base support for the TGTCCSID parameterPTFs to provide the TGTCCSID parameter for CRTBNDCBL and CRTCBLMOD7.5 5770WDS SI810475770WDS SI818665770WDS SI81049 7.4 5770WDS SI810065770WDS SI818635770WDS SI81023 7.3 5770WDS SI814725770WDS SI818465770WDS SI81473
