Chapter 4
Problem Reports


Open Problem Reports

This section describes open problems that have been reported against Micro Focus COBOL.

The number that appears in the first set of parentheses is the IBM NUMA-Q problem-tracking-system number assigned to the report. The number that appears in the second set of parentheses is the Merant problem-tracking-system number assigned to the report. Unless otherwise noted, each problem will be fixed in a later release of the software. For information about work-arounds or bug reporting, contact IBM NUMA-Q Customer Support.


Problem Reports Fixed - Reported by IBM NUMA-Q

This section lists the problems reported by IBM NUMA-Q in this release. The number that appears in the first set of parentheses is the IBM NUMA-Q problem-tracking-system number assigned to the report. The number that appears in the second set of parentheses is the MERANT problem-tracking-system number assigned to the report.


ATTENTION

All of the following problem reports, except for PR (248295) (516889), are also listed in the Corrected Discrepancy Report (CDR) provided by Merant. The CDR is listed below and is also available on the CD at /usr/lib/cobol/cdr/cdrv4.1.txt.


(238769) (700284)
MF-COBOL incorrectly reports run-time error 227.
(236324) (700045)
File contention due to exclusive read locks on semaphore.
(240944) (507467)
cob hangs when linking object with long symbol name.
(241387) (506878)
013-R Illegal intermediate code (at 00003D in seg 00).
(243271) (507467)
cob SEGVs when linking object with long symbol name.

(244190) (511279)
mfsort converts all file names to lower case.
(244453) (701642)
MF RTS does not restart interrupted system calls.
(246197) (702918)
V4.1 fails in Japanese locale with single byte characters.
(248295) (516889)
CCI Module is broadcast based, will not normally traverse routers.
(250876) (703781)
Change all text references of "Sequent " to "IBM NUMA-Q".
(250877) (703773)
Compile and link with bsd-sockets, update /opt/lib/cobol/cobopt.

Problem Reports Fixed- Reported by MERANT

The following list contains the Corrected Discrepancy Report (CDR). This CDR lists all the fixes applied to the previous release of product to create this update. The Reported Product Incident (RPI) number is listed with a summarized description of the original problem. The numbers in parentheses refer to the Product Discrepancy Report (PDR) number originally logged for each problem.

NWB46309
ACCEPT DATE YYYYMMDD and ACCEPT DAY YYYYDD returned RTS173 in generated code
NWB24331
CBL_SCR_CREATE_VC and CBL_SCR_ALLOCATE_VC_COLOR dont work on Unix
NWB33051
Mainframe compatibilty on EXTERNAL data items
NWB36337
Btr2xfh causes hanging when number of key segments exceeds 14
NWB37977
CANCEL with -l0 in Animator causes memory usage to increase
NWB39235
FUNCTION REVERSE does not work for PIC N items
NWB42412
FS2 '/dt2' can't cope with year 2000 date change
NWB43313
Using the numeric key pad '0' character turns on Insert mode aware
NWB43392
Demo datecall/datechk not year 2000
NWB43354
Screen i-o perf. worse on format-1 DISPLAY compared to 16-bit COBOL
NWB43861
CALL X"91" function 35 fails if no default window is displayed
NWB43402
F-stat on a sort file completes with a status '10' instead of '00
NWB44239
Timing problem with CBL_EXEC_RUN_UNIT passing parameters
NWB44963
CP Pre-processor and checker look for different case copybooks
NWB45112
Variable file-name ("filename") in program fails to find file
NWB45390
COMP-5 DIVIDE gives incorrect results
NWB45413
Checker reports error on wrong field
NWB45222
Checker causing NCG error 049-f
NWB45519
Animating recursive programs can 114 when querying/animating
NWB46064
Event.cbl, .ins and .cls missing from OO class library
NWB46495
embedding _CODESET.o in libcobol.a was not possible
NWB46586
Error in syntax check: 289 -s SYNC at group level
NWB46604
CBL_CLEAR_SCR behaviour discrepancy on SCO 5 with dynamic RTS
PAO18127
Set detect_alt_ctrl=true esc and shift
PAO25499
VT100 terminfo shipped with product incorrect, no underline attribute
PAO26853
mfsort is not in OSX and it creates problem for customers
PAO28034
Screen i-o perf. worse on DISPLAY compared to 16-bit COBOL
PAO30007
ER . Add the 16-Bit +I1 COBSW in 32-Bit COBOL
PAO30013
CBL_SUBSYSTEM call failed in generated code
PAO30502
PRINTER option not being picked up in mfextmap
PAO30673
ABEND in COBOL module does not set OS ERRORLEVEL
PAO31118
OPEN EXTEND was not writing to file
PAO31209
Runtime does not recognize current pathing as it used to
PAO31355
Session recorder caused animator to hang
PAO32305
The makeasp script did not create proper links in coblib
PAO32551
Could not pass more than 4 parameters on a CALL in Animator
PAO32665
When > 255 files open, overflow occured
PAO32684
fail on Computed Statement for Multiply and Divide features
PAO32709
Compiler errors 289-s,217-s when compiled with COBOL 4.0
PAO32727
WRITES to LS files are buffered (512 bytes)
PAO32761
ERROR RETURNED ON CLOSE operation if > 128 files are OPENed
PAO32802
Generator hung when BYTEMODEMOVE used at compilation
PAO32806
RTS114 when program exits without closing file
PAO32840
fhrebuild corrupted I"3" and i"4" files
PAO32845
RTS114 when sharemem is run with greater than 9998 iterations
PAO32846
COBOL didn't handle LOW-VALUES in NLS compares
PAO32848
FILESHARE locking problems, Status of File open differed
PAO32962
Using Ref-Modified ADDRESS OF in PERFORM gave RTS114
PAO32964
ACU WINDOW demo failed if color not present in terminfo
PAO33028
mflmman does not generate error when unsuccessful
PAO33032
reinstallation was required when databases are corrupted
PAO33033
the LMF license manager did not display a licence key
210063
Certain system components were not included in the product delivery
210064
COMPUTE statement was returning incorrect results in generated code
210062
RTS114 was returned using subscripted data in generated code with the ODOSLIDE directive
700018
Animating using COBSW=+A would hang if COBDATA was set
700079
LMF was not releasing license keys correctly
700103
Errors incorrectly generated for SQL statements and HOST variable
503716
Statically linked executables produced linker error on AIX 4.3
503717
Problem with COMPUTE data-item1 = data-item2 * 0 on AIX 4.3
503718
RTS 48 Error NOT given with -O switch for Division by Zero on AIX 4.3
503719
cob -F using a single source file with no calls returned undefined symbols when linking on AIX 4.3
503592
cob -g option did not work on AIX 4.3
501570
Retrylock timing poor on AIX when using fileshare
700104
Fileshare was allowing duplicate server names
700128
Rebuild changed the file recording mode to fixed with options -i -v
97017 (NWB41289)
DBCS characters were not appearing in animator
99765 (NWB42835)
Parameters could not be passed when animating using COBSW=+A
114432 (NWB47231)
Checker error was not reported in Japanese
115573 (NWB47946)
Environment variable was not being recognized as a data name
115844 (NWB48169)
libosx should be named libOSX
501190
Assembler error was being returned on AIX V4.2
504814
Incorrect currency symbol was used in sample program
700020
Condition comparing a double subscripted data item with zero returned RTS114 in generated code
700022
Undefined symbols were returned when relinking a Run-Time using mFLFS.o
700025
Compute statements using USAGE DISPLAY data items returned RTS114 in generated code when generated with ARITHMETIC=OSVS
700026
Compute statements using COMP-3 data items returned 038-F generator error when generated with ARITHMETIC=OSVS
NWB41172
Using an Index in multiples of 100 would return RTS153 when compiled COMP-6"2"
NWB43338
BTR2XFH was not posting Signal Handler for SIGINT, SIGHUP, SIGTERM
NWB44611
Numeric comparison of negative S9 COMP-3 items incorrect in gnt code
NWB45390
Division using COMP-5 data items incorrect in gnt code
NWB47298
OPEN OUTPUT on a linked file broke the link
PAO30198
Install wasn't logging an entry in /etc/versionlog. Deinstall required
PAO31137
Obscure error message when TMPDIR is not set to a valid directory
PAO31273
cobrun hangs if -s switch is not set
PAO31481
Successive COMPUTE ROUNDED statements incorrect in gnt code
PAO32165
License Brokering implementation required correction
PAO32305
makeasp did not retain links for Run-Time Shared Libraries
PAO33105
Application Server app incorrectly requested a COBOL License
PAO33276
COBOL product should be developed with V1.1 of the iForLS ADK
PAO33501
COBOL product failed when using newer sockets library (ptx V4.1.3)
700046
Deinstall for Application Server wasn't removing all driver programs
700049
COBOL V4.1 was failing on ptx/4.4 due to an error in the Licensing library
700050
Install script default for driver programs did not match that documented in the Read This First manual
700045
File contention due to exclusive locks being issued by READs
700062
License brokering implementation for Sequent was not correct
501980
mflm_cmd was failing with undefined symbol _tMc5010
700047
Install script default for driver programs was incorrect
600096
WRITETHRU functionality was not working as expected
100011 (NWB43016)
DEC UNIX product documentation should reflect that cob -U option is not supported
100355 (PAO30833)
NCG error 046-F when defaultbyte"219" is set
101064 (NWB41846)
Exhibit named of floating point data item produces incorrect result
101934 (NWB43878)
cob cannot handle linking modules with long filenames
111312 (NWB44919)
Running with COBSW=+A erroneously invoked the base animator
111572 (NWB45100)
Incorrect OO COBOL Documentation entry for bldclanm.sh
112978 (NWB46169)
Running cgiprg1.int from NetExpress causes RTS114
113799 (NWB46768)
termconv should only be documented on the platforms it is supported on
114306 (NWB47152)
Documentation for h2cpy '-a' option requires clarification
114916 (NWB47535)
Run-time tunables not indexed
115028 (NWB47598)
Use of misaligned data in generated code was causing RTS114
115253 (NWB47749)
Need way to identify product is Year2000 compliant and/or LMF enabled
115334 (NWB47784)
LINKAGE-SECTION parameter has an inconsistent value in generated code
115635 (NWB47974)
Instructions to link COBOL with C++ Routines are needed
115673 (NWB48006)
Installation of Object Oriented support failed, but was not reported correctly
115700 (NWB48033)
ACCEPT allows data past the end of field after CBL_EXEC_RUN_UNIT
115830 (NWB48156)
ACCEPT and DISPLAY of Screen Section update field returned incorrect results in generated code
115922 (NWB48241)
cob fails to produce multiple .o's given multiple programs
116358 (NWB48713)
Errors occuring with subscripted data items in generated code using the NOBOUND directive
200047 (NWB44849)
Loss of data after a MOVE statement in generated code
200078 (NWB45473)
RTS114 returned when using Windowing Syntax with the window1 Preprocessor
200135 (NWB47545)
Incorrect access to indexed tables in generated code
200168 (NWB47986)
Using SYNC at group level, NCG error 038-F occurs
200186 (NWB48364)
MOVE to tables returning incorrect results in generated code
20807 (NWB39053)
Toolbox Reference Manual (13-59) gives incorrect range of timeout values
20893 (NWB39165)
RTS114 returned when a Fileshare client executes an UNLOCK statement
210046 (NWB48721)
Dialog System demo program, test1.cbl is missing
210047 (NWB48719)
Dialog System demo program, test1.cbl is missing
210048 (NWB48718)
Dialog System demo program, test1.cbl is missing
210049 (NWB48717)
Dialog System demo program, test1.cbl is missing
210066 (NWB48968)
Install script is looking incorrect Sun C Compiler
210069 (NWB49092)
Mfsort incorrectly converts filenames to lowercase
210074 (NWB49176)
Checker 14-S error on a nested IF...LESS THAN... statement
210075 (NWB49239)
Subscripted MOVE statement returned RTS153, followed by hang
210076 (NWB49280)
Screen Problem - Column of data not displaying
24117 (PAO13730)
V3.0.50 product incorrectly depends on X11 libraries to run
24302 (PAO15250)
RTS 166 error when C program called different COBOL procedures
24339 (PAO15537)
A calls B, B chains A, and A calls B returns RTS166
24641 (PAO18165)
Installation failed when compressed files already existed in $COBDIR
25153 (PAO24097)
IDXFORMAT(4) files failed to RETRYLOCK and skips on READ with LOCK
32031 (NWB17071)
Fhvalidate documentation (P13-27, Paragraph 4) was incomplete
32343 (NWB17635)
NLS restrictions needed in Release Notes
33005 (NWB18772)
COPY..REPLACE produced a malformatted file which gave errors
33724 (NWB20020)
UNIX Operating Guide refered to obsolete directive
35829 (NWB23503)
Various typos in UNIX User Guide
36114 (NWB23954)
dun.app contained an invalid duplicate entry
36638 (NWB24806)
Documentation on setting Run-Time Switches was incorrect for UNIX environments
36639 (NWB24807)
Documentation for Sort switch 'S' was incorrect
36640 (NWB24808)
Text for a number of utility error messages was incorrect
36641 (NWB24811)
Spelling mistake in Run-Time Configuration Section of the documentation
36642 (NWB24812)
Various errors in the File Handler Utilities chapter
36821 (NWB25089)
Support for AIX DB2/6000 required documentation
36967 (NWB25368)
Error in COBOL User Guide caused example program to fail
43817 (NWB37291)
054-R Generator error when CALL BY VALUE 10000 compiled with RM directive
48521 (PAO13061)
CALL "SYSTEM" failed when using COBSW=-l0
48987 (PAO13972)
RECORD IS VARYING syntax is only enabled under the ANS85 directive
49089 (PAO14140)
lsfile cannot be mapped using the -m cob flag
49295 (PAO14480)
Windowing syntax preprocessor (window1) was not searching in $COBCPY
500081
Install script returned 'bad trap' error on Unisys environment
500509
Install script returned 'bad trap' error on Tandem environment
500541
Attempting to MOVE data to or from a PIC N data item returned RTS173
500680
mFFH seems to hang using C/ISAM opcode 8
501348
ADIS Key Mapping is not available
501533
MOVE of data items within a table, both defined with OCCURS syntax returned RTS114
501601
Install script should create subdirectories where required
501696
lmfinstall was not creating a backup of the machines' system file
501882
Windowing syntax preprocessor (window1) was not searching in $COBCPY
502038
Program failing to generate with 038-F error
502039
Program failing to generate with 013-R error
50209 (PAO16276)
MOVE of a PIC --,---.-- to a PIC 9(5)v99 not behaving correctly
502457
Error opening non-existing optional relative file
502597
COMPUTE statements returning different incorrect results in generated code
502655
Clarifications required in the documentation for Large File Support
502915
Documentation required for linking rebuild to work with large files
503228
Error in 'Read This First' manual
503326
cobver does not reflect Year 2000 or LMF Support
503529
Clarification required in the documentation, regarding the use of LOCKTYPE(2) with Large File Support
503648
Stripe size does not always match the documented behavior
503890
Btrieve returning incorrect status when accessing a missing file
503940
Incorrect group field shown with synchronized COMP-5 data in conjunction with the XREF checker directive
504481
SQL Documentation in the File Handling manual requires clarification
504784
Programs with more than 4 Megabytes of code that have a large number of EXTERNAL or LINKAGE-SECTION items would return 058-F error when generating
50598 (PAO17049)
PIC 9(6) BINARY data not being handled correctly in generated code
54336 (PAO25018)
File opened EXCLUSIVE within Fileshare Version 2 was not returning 9/065 (File locked) status
55214 (PAO27234)
IF statement using subscripted reference-modified data items returning incorrect results in generated code
56473 (NWB23949)
Read This First document was showing the wrong default installation directory for SVR4 platforms
600053
Generating a program that contained a DIVIDE with a remainder using ON OVERFLOW syntax would produce a 038-F Generator error
600067
Use of a PIC 9v9(17) OCCURS 'x'data item within an ADD statement returned RTS114 in generated code
60413 (PAO16588)
Numeric checking was failing when using a signed data item, with the SIGN=EBCDIC checker directive
60436 (PAO16975)
Enhancement to allow main() from the Run-Time System to be overridden without it being treated as an initial C program
62109 (PAO26967)
Read This First instructions for sysadm install on Novell were misleading
64041 (PAO05123)
The implementation of the COBPATH Environment variable was not consistent with the use of PATH for program searching
67593 (NWB12111)
Items passed BY VALUE less than 4 bytes in length were not being extended to 4 bytes
68287 (NWB13032)
Closing files in a different order to OPEN with dd_ would hang the application execution
69041 (NWB25770)
MOVE returned incorrect results in generated code when the total WORKING-STORAGE data is greater than 130500 bytes
69434 (PAO12006)
MOVE of a WORKING-STORAGE data item to a LINKAGE-SECTION item returned a 146-W warning from the compiler
69436 (PAO12049)
The size limit for records containing the same alternate key was not documented
69438 (PAO12159)
The index reference ACCEPT FROM ESCAPE KEY was incorrect in the documentation
700009 (NWB49306)
Calling EXTFH from C with opcode 06 was returning the wrong status if the data file did not exist
700014
Attempting to DELETE file-name, when file was defined as EXTERNAL erroneously returned an error status
700043
Enhancement to issue a compiler warning for a MOVE statement, where the target is smaller than the source
700078
ADIS Key Mapping was not working correctly
700090
Rounding of multiple arithmetic operations was not working correctly in generated code
700091
The FOLD-CALL-NAME checker directive was not affecting data items
700094
Documentation for rebuild command-line options was not correct for operations on UNIX
700102
Documentation for C applications calling COBOL within the Language Reference Manual contained various typos
700105
The On-Disk document for Digital Alpha releases (mfalposf.1) was missing from the product delivery
700109
The mfsupport script was missing from the product delivery
700110
Alignment problems existed in generated code when using subscripted MOVEs
700114
ADD statement not working correctly in generated code when the SPZERO directive was specified
70796 (NWB15100)
After OPENing a file attached to a pipe, READing from a second file would return a 9/29 error
71260 (NWB17868)
EBCDIC support was not completely documented
71345 (NWB18426)
LIBLIST environment variable was not documented
72414 (NWB26281)
cob -S was not passing 'asm' to the code generator
73877 (PAO12957)
COPY REPLACING statement was not replacing all occurrences of a literal string
73878 (PAO12959)
Complex IF statement caused the compiler to hang
73879 (PAO12961)
CALL "literal" within a nested program would not work if the PROGRAM-ID contained lower case characters (resolved using FOLDPROGID directive)
73880 (PAO12963)
Error message text for RTS 44 was missing
73883 (PAO12968)
Generating a program containing INSPECT ... TALLYING ... REPLACING syntax returned an 013-R error
76535 (PAO10797)
Enhancement to improve the performance of DIVIDE with remainder
76536 (PAO10806)
Request to provide documentation of Kanji support
77471 (PAO13966)
Clarification requested on portability between V1.2 and V3.0 products
78237 (NWB15946)
Checker limits documented in the Error Messages Manual were partially incorrect
78305 (NWB16984)
Documentation for calling system functions was incomplete for UNIX
79129 (NWB26197)
Generating program using INSPECT ... TALLYING ... FOR CHARACTERS AFTER syntax would return an 013-R error
81282 (NWB04635)
MOVEing a Numeric-edited field to a PIC 90/90/90 returned incorrect results
81340 (NWB04725)
Operating Guide showed an incorrect limit for maximum record size
81390 (NWB04802)
Omron Release Notes have Animator Help screens in wrong place
81426 (NWB04862)
Documentation on Communications facility was not clear
81720 (NWB05441)
Compiling a program using WHEN syntax with 12 ANDs returned a 320-S error
82573 (NWB06314)
Page was missing from the Operating Guide
82648 (NWB06389)
DISPLAYing a large SCREEN SECTION table hung the application execution
82682 (NWB06423)
Cob error messages were being displayed in English rather than Japanese
82686 (NWB06427)
Compiler error messages were being displayed in English rather than Japanese
82736 (NWB06477)
Incorrect reference in Documentation Update Notes
82820 (NWB06561)
mkcobol script was not executing under csh
82869 (NWB06610)
Libscreen was not able to handle a parameterized sgr0 string
82926 (NWB06667)
Program performing an OPEN OUTPUT of a file containing a variable length record but with an invalid file definition was not returning a compiler error
82934 (NWB06675)
COBOL under UNIX did not support color terminals
83418 (NWB07166)
Incorrect behavior using SUBTRACT with COMP-3 data
83810 (NWB07558)
Group items were misaligned when SYNC and IBMCOMP were used
83954 (NWB07702)
Program performing ACCEPTs between CALL and CANCEL statements, with COBSW to set -l0 was returning
RTS114 84056 (NWB07804)
Attributes were not displayed on the console when COBCTRLCHAR was set
84068 (NWB07816)
368-S compiler error message was not documented
84396 (NWB07929)
Toolbox was not installing over an old product
84877 (NWB08430)
Illegal int code was produced when receiving an UNSTRING into a numeric-edited data item
84922 (NWB08478)
Toolbox install script erroneously broke links set up by the COBOL install
85033 (NWB08592)
Install script needed additional checks for installation of driver programs
85201 (NWB08770)
Documentation Update Note entry was incorrect
85298 (NWB08880)
STRING statement was always taking the 'ON OVERFLOW' route
85492 (NWB09114)
Install script was not setting permissions correctly for newly created directories
85806 (NWB09461)
On-Disk documenation contains typo regarding industry file standards
85859 (NWB09518)
Documentation for product installation was incomplete
86251 (NWB09939)
ADIS messages were not overwriting text completely
86257 (NWB09945)
Documented limits for maximum record sizes were incorrect
86418 (NWB10112)
Install script used incorrect logic when installing into current directory
86438 (NWB10132)
MULTIPLY using included signed target fields was returning incorrect results in generated code
86484 (NWB10179)
Record terminator was erroneously returned on Relative READ using Extfh
86652 (NWB10354)
On-Disk Documentation was unclear on use of Reference Modification within an IF statement
87060 (NWB10771)
Enhancement to change fhinfo saved information from IN to ON etc.
87061 (NWB10772)
Enhancement to change fhinfo saved information from IN to ON etc.
87062 (NWB10773)
Enhancement for File Handler Utilities to override paramfile IN parameter
87284 (NWB11026)
ADIS Informational/error messages do not redraw screen attributes
87436 (NWB11184)
Attempting to link a COBOL source containing multiple unnested programs would fail with an 'Undefined symbol' error
87657 (NWB11412)
Documentation error in Operating Guide
87684 (NWB11439)
Documentation on External File Handler Interface needs improvement
87772 (NWB11529)
Attempting to READ from an OPTIONAL indexed file after a WRITE and CLOSE, where the file did not previously exist, incorrectly returned a 2/3 error
87988 (NWB11752)
The listing of account.cbl in the documentation did not match the source provided with the product
88027 (NWB11794)
Subsequent READ PREVIOUS on locked record will skip to previous
91088 (PAO27806)
Toolbox banner showed an incorrect product version number
91914 (NWB35096)
Report Writer was not generating a form feed
92274 (PAO27417)
Application Server Install would fail if DCE System libraries were installed
92287 (NWB38769)
COBOL product did not support the cob '-U' option
92300 (PAO23967)
ACCEPT FROM COMMAND-LINE didn't work when COBSW was set to +A
93674 (PAO28411)
onlex.txt was not being include in the product delivery
95063 (PAO28621)
REWRITE of a record containing a duplication primary key in a C/ISAM file would not work completely
95067 (PAO28625)
Locking records manually when compiled DATACOMPRESS(1) erroneously locked multiple records
95468 (NWB40142)
DISPLAY of WINDOW over a previous DISPLAY did not maintain attributes
98114 (NWB41959)
DIVIDE of table items gave incorrect results in generated code
99195 (PAO30324)
Attempting multiple MOVEs of reference modified data when the SPZERO directive was set didn't work correctly in generated code
100003 (NWB42978)
CBL_GET_OS_INFO was not recognising the zh_CN locale as a DBCS Environment
100265 (PAO30795)
DIVIDE BY GIVING remainder gave an incorrect remainder when the field was unsigned
100280 (PAO30810)
Executing the nlssort demo returned RTS153
100343 (PAO30820)
$set nocallsort sort was failing in generated code
100492 (PAO30880)
Incorrect error message was occurring when the NetLS server was unaccessable
100879 (PAO31069)
CLOSEing a file associated with /dev/tty after WRITES caused erroneous text to be displayed
101521 (PAO31399)
Using COMPUTE for division of additive literals gave incorrect results in generated code
101625 (PAO31442)
Attempting to link a program built with cob -g option was returning a linker error
101635 (NWB43730)
mfisamv5 did not allow a READ PREVIOUS after an EOF was encountered
101833 (PAO31546)
RTS173 was occuring if compiling with both cobsql and cp preprocessors
102356 (NWB44083)
at386 terminfo mnemonics needed to change for SCO Open Server 5.0
110464 (PAO32120)
CCI should only use specific tcp ports, as some systems have protected tcp ports
110523 (PAO32147)
Attempting to link a program built with cob -g option was returning a linker error
111027 (PAO32343)
dbx was failing when number of more than 4998 WORKING-STORAGE items were in the program
111714 (PAO32574)
LMF evaluation keys were not taking effect after they had lapsed
111775 (NWB45224)
Exiting from animator after debugging a program making a CALL returned RTS114
111790 (NWB45235)
Documentation for Toolbox Development Environnment showed an incorrect trigger name
112637 (NWB45864)
MOVE of a variable length data item was failing in generated code
113300 (NWB46381)
Animator failed with an RTS114 after repeated query+cursor against invalid text
113347 (NWB46379)
Animator failed with an RTS114 after repeated query+cursor against invalid text
113571 (NWB46602)
Arrow keys were not being displayed properly within help screens
113714 (PAO33068)
Use of coblongjmp and cobsavenv was generating a core dump
114483 (PAO33255)
RTS114 was returned after the second execution of a SORT in generated code
114616 (PAO33311)
Script required to separate the COBOL modules from the Developer product
114666 (NWB47369)
Machinename parameter in CCI INITCLIENT was being ignored
114738 (PAO33341)
tictac sample was failing with RTS153 in generated code
114751 (NWB47440)
Enhancement to detect dead sockets within setsockopt
114889 (NWB47513)
Fileshare server was hanging after the client had been killed and restarted
114891 (NWB47520)
Fileshare server was hanging after the client had been killed and restarted
114897 (PAO33420)
Makecobol script was failing on HP/UX
114925 (NWB47541)
Compiler was hanging when parsing a RETURNING clause on a prototype
114972 (NWB47567)
Compiling program with charset(ebcdic) was returning RTS114
115057 (PAO33500)
COBOL product was built with the wrong sockets library for execution under DYNIX/ptx V4.4
115074 (PAO33504)
cob was returning library not found error when using the -z option
115090 (NWB47639)
Memory fault returned when C/COBOL modules were linked in a particular order
115106 (NWB47643)
MOVE of numeric COMP fields using OCCURS DEPENDING on was hanging in generated code
115444 (PAO33654)
EXTFH opcode 0xFACA (step next) was returning the wrong status on hitting the end-of-file
115557 (NWB47934)
LMF suspend key was not picked up after a refresh
115710 (NWB48045)
Symbols defined in the Run-Time system clashed with user programs, causing a Run-Time error
116049 (NWB48356)
Index value in a nested subprogram was incorrect in generated code
116239 (NWB48587)
MOVE statement was referencing a bad register in generated code
116241 (NWB48592)
MOVE statement was filling the wrong destination field in generated code
116565 (NWB48963)
Sample programs for Cobsql were in the wrong product directory
116626 (NWB49013)
RTS173 was returned when executing a statically linking Object Oriented application
116629 (NWB48999)
Compiling a program with duplicate WORKING-STORAGE fields, where one was EXTERNAL was hanging
116791 (NWB49198)
Compiler erroneously classified all alphanumeric literals as DBCS
116848 (NWB49253)
Window1 preprocessor was not locating copy files if no file extension was specified
200073 (NWB45252)
MOVE statement between indexed fields was not working correctly in generated code
200097 (NWB46495)
User replacement of _CODESET was failing with linker errors
200179 (NWB48135)
Background text was not being displayed within a Panel
200208 (NWB48773)
DISPLAY of background fields using the Window1 preprocessor was not working correctly
20805 (NWB39055)
Fileshare message regarding parameters being accepted/rejected was not displayed for long enough
210034 (NWB48469)
REPLACE statement had no affect on SQL include book
210038 (NWB48704)
Line drawing characters were not being displayed correctly
210051 (NWB48764)
mftic was not included in the product delivery
210054 (NWB48788)
mftic was not included in the product delivery
210056 (NWB48809)
mftic was not included in the product delivery
210060 (NWB48813)
mftic was not included in the product delivery
24409 (PAO16103)
Request to support existing DCLGEN'ed SQL syntax
31886 (NWB16805)
Compiler would hang if $ character was not in column
7 31967 (NWB16941)
Typo in documentation regarding Toolbox menu status line
31987 (NWB16973)
Compiler was not retaining links to .int code modules
32006 (NWB17030)
Documentation on the use of $COBOPT within Toolbox needed clarification
32030 (NWB17070)
Difficult to distinguish between 0/O and 1/I in the documentation
32229 (NWB17387)
Incorrect status returned when same status item was used in a SORT for the USING and GIVING files
32356 (NWB17656)
Documentation didn't show restriction of using variable length indexed files with the NLS directive
32470 (NWB17814)
Enhancement to the Toolbox Environment Variable option to handle longer values
33283 (NWB19210)
PERFORM VARYING ... UNTIL EXIT syntax was not compiling
36569 (NWB24713)
COMPUTE returning inaccurate results when using signed fields
36782 (NWB25028)
Documentation of the COBPRINTER environment variable needed clarification
39592 (NWB30035)
x"a7" attribute calls were not displaying correctly
48988 (PAO13973)
File Handler Utilities code caused linker warnings
49881 (PAO15648)
Animator attributes appeared incorrect on a mono terminal inside Toolbox
49952 (PAO15776)
Fileshare was not running with CCI Named Pipes
500115
Compare utility returned a signal 11 if $COLUMNS was not set to 80
500138
makeasp copies install script into APS and APS/cobtmp
500376
cob failed to create a statically linked executable if $TMPDIR was set in the users' login environment
500537
STRING syntax was not compiling when the JAPANESE directive was specified
500549
Incorrect file status was returned for READ NEXT after a READ of an illegal key
500682
Rebuild was hanging on an IDXFORMAT(1) (C/ISAM) file
500752
Using the ODOSLIDE directive cause COMPUTE statement to loop in int code
501061
LMF reported an incorrect number of licenses being used
501364
Line sequential input/output should not be buffered when working with devices
501399
Exclusive locks were being issued on the semaphore by READs
501644
Daisgen support was not working correctly
501666
Incorrect sign returned when ADDing a negative value to zero in generated code
502133
DCE support should be removed from the product
502316
PROG-ATTR directive settings were not retained for generated code
502364
RTS173 was returned when executing a statically linking Object Oriented application
502391
Comments inside cmain sample program contained incorrect instructions for debugging
502542
Call to 'cobtermmode' was returning RTS114
502545
Ohbld failed with RTS173 due to missing module
502703
Mfsupport script was not included in the product delivery
502763
OPEN WITH NO REWIND on a Line Sequential file returning illegal int code error when compiled with the RM directive
502893
Form Feed characters were incorrectly buffered
50294 (PAO16460)
Not all error messages were documented
503006
Multiple ACCEPT WITH TIMEOUT syntax was not timing out correctly
503092
Unable to create executable whose name was longer than 10 characters
503370
Dialog System restricted the maximum length of literals in dialogs
503443
Animator Locate Help screen was corrupted
503478
Enhancement to change the naming convention used for file stripes
503485
Stripe size did not always match documented behavior
503516
Last records were lost when reading back idxformat(8) files which reached an overflow condition (9/047) when being written
503646
Enhancement to change the naming convention used for file stripes
503650
Last records were lost when reading back idxformat(8) files which reached an overflow condition (9/047) when being written
503753
The directory structure under $COBDIR/lang did not reflect the system directory structure
503754
Product was not working correctly when $LANG was set to a valid value and $COBDIR/lang/$LANG did not exist
504002
Documentation of CBL_ALLOC_MEM did not state requirements on data alignment
504277
CCI_GETERROR was not returning the correct message length
504333
Discrepancy existed between the Application Server product and that created by the makeasp script
504516
Enhancement to allow batch compiles to be completed with a brokered product
52649 (PAO20987)
Enhancement to add DB2 support for COMP data
54970 (PAO26529)
Toolbox failed with an RTS114 after animation
55914 (NWB16657)
Preprocessor sample programs used wrong terminology
56184 (NWB20690)
Enhancement to allow dynamically loaded object modules on AIX
56332 (NWB22338)
Setting switches from the toolbox run/switches menu wasn't working correctly
56455 (NWB23775)
DISPLAY to the bottom line was slower than that on other lines
56808 (NWB26679)
Highlighting in an aixterm was not satisfactory
57571 (NWB30958)
Compare of Japanese chars flagged an incorrect attribute
57876 (NWB33063)
Mfinfocmp did not decompile terminfo octal values correctly
58390 (NWB35718)
User command line was not passed to animated programs
58577 (NWB36508)
mfinfocmp producing bad 'source' file
58610 (NWB36707)
Calls using reference modified names were not always sensitive to length changes
59132 (NWB38558)
Animator was not displaying the second help screen from the initial page
600059
046-F error when generating a program MOVEing data to several LINKAGE-SECTION items
60558 (PAO18199)
Enhancement to implement cobcommandline() function
61092 (PAO21973)
Attempting to statically link an application would fail if certain system libraries were not provided as static archives
62241 (PAO27359)
Help screen description of Animator find was incorrect
62484 (NWB16938)
Animator would hang after DOing a CALL statement
62674 (NWB28216)
UNIX Session Recorder Welcome screen was missing details of key mappings
63891 (NWB11808)
Window1 Preprocessor behaved inconsistently if unexpected key pressed
63899 (NWB11866)
Compare was not outputting the warning bell on playback
63900 (NWB11867)
RTS error returning wrong "call=" value in exe if COBCONFIG set
63901 (NWB11868)
The file conversion program generated by the conversion series requires the COBCONFIG tuneable command_line_accept=TRUE to be set
63907 (NWB11878)
Compiler was incorrectly returning 129-W (statement cannot be reached)
63908 (NWB11880)
Compiler looped when copyfile did not exist
63915 (NWB11929)
Various shell scripts contained spelling mistakes
63916 (NWB11955)
Division by zero using COMP-3 or display items returned RTS114 in generated code
64042 (PAO05128)
FD names in convert5 batch file had to be sorted by length
66135 (NWB11950)
Use of EXIT PROGRAM GIVING or GOBACK GIVING would return compiler error
66136 (NWB11958)
ADIS performance was slow after using ACU Windowing syntax
67575 (PAO06991)
EFS/EFT support needed in COBOL product
68256 (NWB12423)
Specifying NODIRECTIVES directive erroneously gave 155-U error
68310 (NWB13213)
An unquoted copyfile name was not found by the compiler
68348 (NWB13353)
UNSTRING syntax produced a core dump
68753 (NWB17916)
038-F error was returned when generating a COMPUTE statement whose first operand was a hyphen
68891 (NWB20348)
Program looped when a file error caused entry to declaratives
69355 (PAO10375)
Documentation for linking the cmain/account sample was incorrect
69392 (PAO11100)
Compiler was returning 146-W warning on a non-overlapping MOVE statement
69394 (PAO11173)
Rebuilding rts32 with mkrts caused signed values to be ignored intermittently
69410 (PAO11490)
Multiple REDEFINES statements resulted in misleading error messages
69411 (PAO11496)
Multiple REDEFINES statements resulted in misleading error messages
69415 (PAO11511)
Compiler returned a misleading error message against misspelled verbs
69430 (PAO11885)
Compiler returned 145-S against an FD with multiply defined records
69439 (PAO12168)
RTS114 errort was returned when writing to a compressed ISAM file
69444 (PAO12331)
Running fhconvert against a C/ISAM file returned iserrno 102
700010
LMF was not returning a non-zero status if no licenses were available
700016
Program was hanging on termination if not all files were previously CLOSEd
700044
Performance degradation was apparent when OPENing a file containing DELETEd records
700056
License Manager daemon was not running correctly
700063
RTS114 returned after a CALL to a subprogram performing two COMPUTE statements
700067
License manager should not attempt to use ADIS for output of messages if no tty exists
700099
Program OPENing several files fails with RTS114 if COBEXTFHBUF is set to a very large value
700107
Compiler erroneously generated E-1064 error on a COPY statement
700111
An application created using a Direct Market product was not executing on an OEM-targetted Application Server product
700112
Enhancement for LMF admin tool to display expiration date for limited licenses
70174 (NWB12326)
Animating a Dialog System application was not displaying 8-bit characters correctly on the user screen
70312 (NWB12690)
TRUNC option was returning incorrect results on unsigned COMP targets
70349 (NWB12867)
Keypad state was not reinstated after CALL "SYSTEM" was executed
70422 (NWB13221)
EXIT PROGRAM within global declaratives was not being flagged as non-ANSI
70808 (NWB15133)
PERFORM .... n TIMES was not exiting if the times variables required more than 32 bits
71089 (NWB16897)
X"A7" call to set colors was having no effecgt
71297 (NWB18146)
Querying a data item in Animator after monitor a level 88 item would return an error
71317 (NWB18271)
Line count displays the wrong value when analyzing, after a reset cursor and step
71331 (NWB18338)
The Escape key was not interrupting out of Zoom mode in animator during program processing
71343 (NWB18420)
Unstring was failing with variable length delimiters
i3657 (PAO10878)
Animator would hang printing structure charts if the boxeswere too small to hold the paragraph names
74493 (PAO17340)
Output from report writer program contained no newline characters
75927 (NWB17913)
Enhancement to add support for AIX shared libraries
76795 (PAO18808)
Cross session animation returned RTS235 on query/cursor
78291 (NWB16944)
Documentation wasn't clear on how to specify compiler directives with parameters inside the Toolbox environment
78292 (NWB16947)
Documentation wasn't clear on how to reconfigure keys for use within Toolbox (e.g. arrow keys)
78315 (NWB17013)
Format of return-code for CBL_ routines was not documented
78323 (NWB17027)
Documentation on Animator directives needed clarification
80048 (NWB36466)
Reference modification using an identifier would hang in generated code
81256 (NWB04600)
Program would crash if COBSW=-J and an odd number of characters was ACCEPTed
81276 (NWB04628)
Incorrect RM file status returned after an OPEN
81281 (NWB04634)
OPENing a variable length indexed file after CLOSE WITH LOCK returned a bad status
81283 (NWB04636)
Bad file status returned manipulating files with variable length records under RM
81287 (NWB04640)
cob-file-lasterror was not returning the correct error status under Animator
81345 (NWB04736)
Program containing an FD with 2 keys with same start address would not compile READ KEY IS ... syntax
81355 (NWB04747)
String compare routine x"BC" was not working correctly
81359 (NWB04752)
Statically linking a program that chained another gave no error at link-time
81361 (NWB04754)
Statically linking a program that chained another gave no error at link-time
81377 (NWB04777)
Profiler was not returning meaningful values from generated code
81378 (NWB04783)
Animator On-Count_Enter displayed spurious circumflex when odd number of characters entered
81387 (NWB04798)
Animator Perform Help screen corrupted the main screen
81423 (NWB04857)
OSVS PERFORM exit bucket handling discrepancy
81449 (NWB04892)
COBOL needed to be initialised before calling cobprintf() from C
81461 (NWB04930)
WRITE to a file previously redirected to a printer would return RTS34
81465 (NWB04934)
Attribute handling was incorrect when moving the cursor on certain terminal types
81507 (NWB05025)
CALL 'sleep' from COBOL was hanging
81510 (NWB05039)
CALL USING 64 parameters failed with RTS errors
81556 (NWB05155)
Rewriting a duplicate key in sequence with COBSW=-K returned incorrect ANSI status
81570 (NWB05188)
Animation of C program calling COBOL programs core dumped
81606 (NWB05314)
Not all generator messages were displayed in Japanese
81670 (NWB05391)
OLDVSC2 directive was not working as expected
81893 (NWB05614)
Program compiled with PERFORM-TYPE or RM directives with large data item fell over with RTS114 during a PERFORM
81894 (NWB05615)
Subsequent DO statement in Animator corrupted double-byte characters
81931 (NWB05653)
CALL to subprogram where USING parameters exceed the LINKAGE SECTION definition in subprogram fails
81932 (NWB05654)
Nesting to X/OPEN limit of IFs returned generator error
81991 (NWB05713)
Figurative constant "SPACE" was not initialising PIC N data items as ASCII spaces
82021 (NWB05744)
IBM-MS syntax "update" was not displaying the contents of the field if it wasn't the initial table item
82224 (NWB05948)
Compiler would error with more than 85 SCREEN SECTION items
82256 (NWB05989)
Compiler erroneously produced a .IDY file, rather than .idy
82268 (NWB06001)
Incorrect file status was returned on a second read of a locked record
82279 (NWB06015)
Cob was not returning an error if the command line limit was exceeded
82291 (NWB06031)
Failure of bounds checking with OCCURS DEPENDING
82293 (NWB06033)
Generating a program using CALL BY VALUE "literal" returned 013-F error
82384 (NWB06125)
The compiler wasn't checking for an invalid name if the PROGRAM-ID if it was a non-numeric literal
82541 (NWB06282)
MOVE of COMP-5 data was being truncated in generated code
82582 (NWB06323)
Compiler warning 129-W was not being reported for all cases of unexecutable code
82601 (NWB06342)
MOVE of COMP-3 data to DISPLAY field failed
82683 (NWB06424)
Animating a COBOL program calling C modules would hang when zooming
82684 (NWB06425)
Adiscf help screen for Special Termination was not in Japanese
82685 (NWB06426)
Erroneous circumflxed appeared in subsequent Query and Locate fields in Animator
82705 (NWB06446)
Query of a numeric field in Animator erroneously defaulted to Hex mode
82709 (NWB06450)
Attempting to overflow the query/enter field in animator would leave the cursor in the wrong place
82713 (NWB06454)
Compiling a zero length program produced spurious output
82719 (NWB06460)
Query enter-name got corrupted when typing quickly in animator
82735 (NWB06476)
Was not possible to selection options within Adiscf after accessing the key control help screen
82738 (NWB06479)
Enhancement for profiler trigger cobprof to error if no command line specified
82743 (NWB06484)
Animator should only have displayed 4 characters for RETURN-CODE
82746 (NWB06487)
cobol returned error on compiling program with no PROGRAM-ID entered on the console
82760 (NWB06501)
Inconsistent file status returned for OPEN IO on a nonexistant file when IS OPTIONAL syntax not used, but OPTIONAL-FILE directive specified
82774 (NWB06515)
Program performing call/cancel was returning memory allocation error
82780 (NWB06521)
Attempting to query a symbolic data item would return an RTS error
82867 (NWB06608)
Generator statistics on data size were incorrect
82896 (NWB06637)
Default WRITE for ASSIGN PRINTER is non-ANSI
82901 (NWB06642)
Documentation needed clarifying on current directory and use of COBIDY
82929 (NWB06670)
Color attributes weren't being reset correctly
82951 (NWB06692)
Query of a PROCEDURE DIVISION USING ... item fell over within Animator
82957 (NWB06698)
Reform5 was removing characters to the right of a Page feed
82975 (NWB06716)
Generator error 014-R was returned for 62 nested IF statements
82976 (NWB06717)
PROCEDURE DIVISION USING 61 items failed to compile
83008 (NWB06749)
Generator banner showed the wrong product version number
83016 (NWB06757)
Convert 3 error messages were being overwritten by Menu
83020 (NWB06761)
Unhelpful error was returned on linking with no development kit
83039 (NWB06780)
Additional Run-Time error messages being output unnecessarily
83074 (NWB06816)
cob was ignoring specified entry points if not in the source on the command line
83080 (NWB06822)
Read This First instructins were incomplete
83081 (NWB06823)
Terminfo mnemonics for BackTab and EndOfScreen weren't being picked up
83082 (NWB06824)
Terminfo mnemonics for BackTab and EndOfScreen weren't being picked up
83188 (NWB06930)
Animating a C/COBOL app would return memory allocation errors
83279 (NWB07021)
Forms2 wasn't working when the length of $COBDIR was > 34 characters
83287 (NWB07029)
Data corruption would occur if a '.' was the first part of a numeric edited data item
83409 (NWB07157)
Program execution would hang with a large number of SCREEN SECTION items
83524 (NWB07272)
CALL "system" USING behaved incorrectly
83594 (NWB07342)
Forms2 check-out corrupted data on Japanese environments
83607 (NWB07355)
MULTIPLY / DIVIDE result would error with large number of zeroes embedded
83646 (NWB07394)
cob/cc inconsistent with location of source and object files
83659 (NWB07407)
Compiler rejects BY LENGTH OF on SET pointer UP/DOWN statements
83665 (NWB07413)
cob preprocessing C Compiler directives wrongly
83725 (NWB07473)
Animator help for Alter Path was incorrect for UNIX
83765 (NWB07513)
ADIS DISPLAYs with reference modified data were incorrect length
83783 (NWB07531)
Animator was not handling ANSI ACCEPTs correctly
83894 (NWB07642)
CBL_AND was not returning the correct result in the target field
83898 (NWB07646)
Lock was returned on WRITE, when DELETE used after READ WITH KEPT LOCK
83914 (NWB07662)
Could not overwrite sign within query enter
83950 (NWB07698)
Program performing ACCEPTs and calls to subprograms failed with COBSW=-l0
83997 (NWB07745)
CBL_ logical operations gave wrong results with subscripted items
84071 (NWB07819)
READs were still retried with program compiled -C "RM NORETRYLOCK"
84087 (NWB07835)
READs were still retried with program compiled -C "RM NORETRYLOCK"
84088 (NWB07836)
READs were still retried with program compiled -C "RM NORETRYLOCK"
84122 (NWB07870)
Compiler was not rejecting ENTRY/PROCEDURE DIVISION using LOCAL-STORAGE item
84124 (NWB07872)
Compiler was not rejecting OCCURS DEPENDING ON .. a LOCAL-STORAGE item
84141 (NWB07889)
EXIT PROGRAM from within PERFORM TIMES loop returned RTS error
84397 (NWB07930)
Compiler was not rejecting CHAIN <procedure pointer>
84419 (NWB07952)
CANCEL was not releasing memory in generated code
84443 (NWB07978)
MOVE of a negative value to a signed field failed with compiled -C COMP
84453 (NWB07988)
Compiler rejected $SET statement when not on the initial line
84468 (NWB08003)
File Handler Utilities message for an illegal option was wrong
84473 (NWB08008)
File Handler Utilities banner showed wrong copyright date
84475 (NWB08010)
fhvalidate -f option was not redirecting output correctly
84492 (NWB08027)
File Handler Utilities failed if called from program containing hyphen
84494 (NWB08029)
Incorrect overtype of english over zenkaku characters in Animator
84495 (NWB08030)
Environment Until condition in Animator over 40 chars would get corrupted
84499 (NWB08034)
CALL ... ON OVERFLOW not working with missing subprogram
84525 (NWB08060)
Convert3 version numbers were not in sync
84529 (NWB08064)
SCREEN SECTION ACCEPT AT 8024 was not accepted
84546 (NWB08082)
cobrun prog would core dump with ANSI ACCEPT of over 103 chars
84554 (NWB08090)
Inconsistency in RTS error messages between int and gnt
84563 (NWB08099)
pfx string in terminfo not handled by RTS as reverse polish
84584 (NWB08121)
DISPLAY was ignored by ADIS if large CONTROL field used
84585 (NWB08122)
Noise word IS was not recognised by ADIS
84588 (NWB08125)
Compiler issuing additional erroneous message
84589 (NWB08126)
Compiler flagging comments preceding IDENTIFICATION DIVISION incorrectly
84594 (NWB08131)
SUBTRACT of signed fields gave wrong results in generated code
84596 (NWB08133)
Compiler flag 413 returned incorrectly (dialect and message)
84597 (NWB08134)
DBCSOSSI Compiler directive had the wrong default
84601 (NWB08138)
mF_exstr was returning incorrect output bufferlen if stringlen was 255
84603 (NWB08140)
Key mapping help screen didn't look correct on terminals < 25 lines
84614 (NWB08152)
Forms2 had no startup banner
84621 (NWB08159)
Query of data item in animator whose length was > 80 chars corrupted screen
84627 (NWB08165)
CLOSE WITH LOCK allowed file to be OPENed if COBDATA was set
84653 (NWB08191)
Not all Compiler directives were documented
84664 (NWB08202)
Animator zoom message was incorrect for UNIX
84669 (NWB08207)
Screens menu text contained a typo
84672 (NWB08210)
Use of EXTERNAL FD'S with multiple file names caused problems
84673 (NWB08211)
Use of EXTERNAL FD'S with multiple file names caused problems
84692 (NWB08230)
COBSW -Z was not supported
84711 (NWB08250)
SELECT .. OPTIONAL wasn't working correctly if the file didn't exist
84719 (NWB08258)
DISPLAY UPON ENVIRONMENT-VALUE was not erroring if ENVIRONMENT-NAME was unset
84731 (NWB08270)
Enhancement request for ON EXCEPTION clause to work with CHAIN
84733 (NWB08272)
fhinfo was not accepting all arguments when called from COBOL
84775 (NWB08314)
RTS 197 was being returned when stdin was /dev/null but the program required no input
84779 (NWB08318)
013 error was returned generating program with REPORT-SECTION
84844 (NWB08390)
Release notes showed the wrong limit for PROCEDURE DIVISION size
84874 (NWB08427)
A move by UNSTRING was returning different results from MOVE
84912 (NWB08467)
Compiler was not handling directives with multiple arguments correctly
84923 (NWB08479)
Analyzer directive 'NOCOUNT' ad no effect
84931 (NWB08487)
Screens & Editor did not allow a period in load or save path
84933 (NWB08489)
Analyzer could not handle programs with more than 18 CALLs
84941 (NWB08497)
Break-point node not displayed when zooming in large Structure diagram
84945 (NWB08501)
Animating a program calling PANELS through advanced animator would corrupt the screen
84948 (NWB08504)
Moving the structure diagram off the window within animator would return an error
84950 (NWB08506)
Screens & Editor load & save filenames were limited to 8.3 chars
84954 (NWB08510)
Animator toggles to save analysis and structure had no effect
85024 (NWB08583)
Editor Library option saved the file as the wrong name
85141 (NWB08707)
Convert3 version numbers were not consistent
85178 (NWB08744)
Was not possible to DISPLAY blank screen of specified color
85207 (NWB08779)
Run-Time error would occur when handling SCREEN-SECTION items larger than 8K
85208 (NWB08780)
Run-Time error would occur when CHAINing a statically linked exe
85295 (NWB08877)
EXTERNAL data items of same name were not checked for same size
85318 (NWB08903)
DISPLAY of SCREEN SECTION WITH NO line specified and BELL displayed on the wrong line
85496 (NWB09120)
Cursor problems existed in animator when terminfo didn't have 'bright' entry
85537 (NWB09164)
NOT AT END was not being executed against a locked record with COBSW=+B
85542 (NWB09173)
Calling EXTFH from C was not working correctly
85642 (NWB09289)
Calling EXTFH from C was not working correctly
85643 (NWB09290)
Calling EXTFH from C was not working correctly
85977 (NWB09643)
Install script checks for existing product weren't complete
86316 (NWB10008)
Message for RTS110 was not in $COBDIR/rts.err
86376 (NWB10070)
Limit LINKCOUNT compiler directive is not clear
86383 (NWB10077)
Generating program would fail if external data name was > 18 chars
86521 (NWB10217)
Colors appeared different between those WITH CONTROL and those directly specified
86522 (NWB10218)
Colors appeared different between those WITH CONTROL and those directly specified
86540 (NWB10236)
Could not compile program with multiple periods in name
86639 (NWB10339)
Mixing ANSI and ADIS DISPLAYs caused erroneous carriage returns to appear
86691 (NWB10395)
Program with SORT would error in generated code when compiled NOOSVS
86697 (NWB10401)
Could not compile LEVEL 78 PIC G item used as part of an 01 PIC G
86994 (NWB10703)
/S option in Advanced Animator was not scrolling the screen
86995 (NWB10704)
Editor Library option saved the file as the wrong name
87157 (NWB10871)
Default block size differed between the file handler and the file handler Utilities
87178 (NWB10902)
File Handler Utilities didn't handle the -f option correctly
87330 (NWB11074)
Program compiled RM using a dim terminfo mnemonic moved the cursor incorrectly
87348 (NWB11093)
Editor was not searching $COBCPY for copy files
87444 (NWB11192)
Documentation for cobscroll was incomplete
87467 (NWB11215)
Problems running generated code with a Run-Time system linked -F
87515 (NWB11265)
Reform5 was producing bad code
87593 (NWB11346)
Wrong error returned when CALLing a program with the same PROGRAM-ID
87613 (NWB11367)
Change in representation of RM unsigned COMP-3 caused incompatibility
87672 (NWB11427)
Compiler failed with RTS198 if COBSW=+A
87690 (NWB11445)
Enhancement to allow keypad to be switched between local/application modes
87729 (NWB11484)
Incorrect RTS error was returned running an executable when COBDIR was unset
87759 (NWB11516)
Screens was generating incorrect code from an existing screenset
87781 (NWB11541)
Screens positioned incorrectly after using F7 (read char)
87845 (NWB11605)
Was not possible to animate a preprocessor
87846 (NWB11606)
DISPLAY literal UPON ENVIRONMENT-VALUE set incorrect literal length
87847 (NWB11607)
Compiler was corrupting preprocessor command line
87858 (NWB11618)
Compiler was not CANCELling preprocessor module at end
87861 (NWB11621)
Attributes not cleared when mixing Windowing and ADIS syntax
87918 (NWB11680)
Length was incorrect for ALL "literal" MOVE/compare to a variable length target
87924 (NWB11686)
Screens was producing spurious blank lines in prog.ss file
87967 (NWB11731)
Attributes were not cleared after DISPLAY SPACES using Windowing syntax
87969 (NWB11733)
Continuation characters were not accepted by the Windowing preprocessor
87972 (NWB11736)
Windowing preprocessor didn't handle nested programs correctly
87973 (NWB11737)
Compiling -P -C preprocess=window1 was not producing listing
87975 (NWB11739)
Windowing preprocessor was removing characters from col 73 in compiler listing
87976 (NWB11740)
Responding 'n' to the prompt to continue compiling after hitting an error using the Windowing preprocessor gave the wrong return-code
87978 (NWB11742)
Windowing preprocessor didn't handle nested copy books correctly
87979 (NWB11743)
Animating preprocessed code displayed the wrong source line
87980 (NWB11744)
Compiling with NOERRQ using the Windowing preprocessor corrupted the display inside Toolbox
87981 (NWB11745)
Compile/Edit using the Windowing preprocessor displayed the wrong source line after an error
90503 (NWB35387)
CCINAMPU reported incorrect failure when Initclient failed
90724 (NWB38214)
Animator was erroring after interrupting 'go' on speed 9
91544 (PAO27988)
Documentation on CBL_SCR_SAVE and CBL_SCR_RESTORE was incomplete
91953 (NWB38189)
Customer demo wasn't working in co-operative mode on AIX
93415 (NWB39601)
Mfsupport script wasn't installed correctly
95822 (PAO28995)
Needed documentation on how to create mainframe format print files
96461 (PAO29040)
FS_CHECK_FILE_EXISTS was passing delete to the virtual filehandler
96464 (PAO29043)
FS_CHECK_FILE_EXISTS was passing delete to the virtual filehandler
96607 (PAO29186)
Cob wasn't able to link 184 object files
96800 (PAO29251)
RTS 114 when CBL_EXIT_PROCed program physically cancelled the program issuing the STOP RUN
96801 (PAO29252)
Logical cancel on UNIX did not clear entry points in CANCELled programs
96816 (PAO29267)
Animator didn't switch to user screen after a called program called video APIs
97463 (PAO29594)
Contents of a subscripted item were not displayed correctly in generated code
97916 (PAO29801)
Problems hit linking due to placement of ldtab.o on ld command line
97919 (PAO29804)
Problems hit linking due to placement of ldtab.o on ld command line
97993 (PAO29963)
int, idy, & csi weren't created in specified directory in cobol.dir
98451 (PAO29480)
CBL_SUBSYSTEM wasn't clearing entry points after logical cancel
98716 (PAO29936)
Subtracting LENGTH OF data-item defined with OCCURS DEPENDING ON returned incorrect result in generated code
101784
Complex conditional statement would return an 038-F generator error
101785
COMPUTE statement returned incorrect result in generated code
101786
COMPUTE statement returned incorrect result in generated code
506878
While compiling with -u option, failing with error code 013-R illegal intermediate code
507467
256 limit on function length when linking c function with cobol
507767
Arithmetic statement ... GIVING a comp-2 value would always return an ON SIZE ERROR
507927
RTS114 would be returned when a STOP RUN existed in a SORT output procedure
509117
When compiling using the CALLFH=mFFH directive, a file open mode of INPUT - deny would be set incorrectly to I-O
511279
Mfsort erroneously folded file names to lower case
512847
Certain applications would return RTS239 using the Application Server product
513490
Fhinfo would return RTS114 when reading an indexed file containing deleted records
513557
COPY ... REPLACING was not working correctly
514450
ACCEPT ... WITH AUTO-SKIP was incorrectly expecting the user to hit carriage-return when user output was redirected
514520
The compiler erroneously rejected the LOCKTYPE=2 directive
515124
COBOL not recognising SELECT FILE ASSIGN '$ file construct'
515131
EXTERNAL data item was being recorded as Text rather than Data
515803
Rebuild of a data file would fail when using data compression, and the maximum record length exceeded 3970 bytes
516057
Stop run without closing file gives 114 only if file external/v
516160
WRITE AFTER PAGE incorrectly suppressed line feed (0A) from the previous line with FILETYPE(11)-format files
516329
Rebuild utility would not support C-ISAM format files correctly
600288
Moving ZERO into a subscripted COMP data-item would return RTS114 in generated code
600457
Handling of subscripted data items was incorrect in generated code
600484
Handling of subscripted data items was incorrect in generated code
600625
Handling of subscripted data items was incorrect in generated code
600689
Arithmetic expression returned incorrect results in generated code
600693
Handling of subscripted data item with a subscript greater than
65535
gave incorrect results in generated code
700201
WHEN-COMPILED syntax was not working correctly beyond the year 2000
700284
If the called program has a data type defined smaller than that of the calling program, error message 227 appeared
700433
Rebuild utility would not work with filenames containing hyphens
700473
Incorrect filename was being generated using IDXFORMAT(8)
700565
Setting an OBJECT REFERENCE pointer to an OBJECT REFERENCE table would return RTS114 at compile-time
700600
SORT could loop indefinitely if disk space/permissions error was returned
700633
Install script used bad criteria to check for superuser privileges
700652
A MOVE statement within a SEARCH ... WHEN condition failed in generated code
700696
Conditional comparison with literal zero returned incorrect results in generated code
700713
Compiler error message 168 was not documented
700718
Compilation would fail if the COBCONFIG tuneable signal_interface was set to TRUE
700766
Relative address was being ignored by the External File Handler for C/ISAM files
700787
Additional erroneous program break-points were encountered during animation
700927
Fileshare would return RTS188 when opening a filename larger than 14 characters that was derived from an environment variable
700947
DIVIDE ... BY ZERO was not returning an erro condition in generated code
700974
READ on an alternate key of a C/ISAM format file returned an incorrect record when the keys overlapped
701011
Compilation would hang when the XREF directive was specified
701317
Rebuild utility would hang or return a Run-Time error reading a corrupt file
701429
Master Index was incomplete for COBDATA
701468
fhinfo was failing with RTS162
701553
SORT would fail with a 9/13 File Status Error when COBCONFIG tuneable same_proc_excl_detection was set to TRUE
701636
Documentation for the Rebuild utility -c option was incomplete
701642
ALARM signal is received which stops the process with EINTR
701691
COBCONFIG tuneable file_io_buffer_mode was not documented
701730
The output of an ACCEPT compiled with DEFAULTBYTE=0 contained an incorrect result
701759
FOLD-CALL-NAME compiler directive was not affecting data items
701773
COPY...REPLACING in PROCEDURE DIVISION was not working for section or paragraph names
701801
fhinfo was failing with RTS162
701838
Compilation would fail if both CSI and COBIDY directives were specified
701936
CLOSEing a relative variable record would not free locks
701937
Application would hang on STOP RUN if no file locks were available
701955
Memory leak occured using the intrinsic function INTEGER-TO-DATE with an argument of SPACES or ZEROES
701956
CALL x'A7' USING ... failed with RTS114
702040
Conditional comparison with literal zero returned incorrect results in generated code
702106
Sorting a LINE SEQUENTIAL file using Mfsort returned incorrect result
702427
Writing a keyed index file to an NLS enabled file returned an invalid key error
702470
CALL to PC_PRINT_FILE would return a dynamic loader error
702515
Incorrect file status error could occur under certain circumstances with buffered sequential files
702546
Sort did not handle indexed files large than 1Gb
702619
Animator would not accept keystrokes correctly when user output was redirected
702751
Fileshare documentation was incorrect for execution in background
702801
Object Oriented applications would fail with an RTS error
702896
Animating a CICS application would fail with RTS173 against mflm_putl
702918
Ability to compile with English locales and run with Japanese locales is retained
702991
Conditional comparison of large signed data item returned incorrect results in generated code
703004
Locking of IDXFORMAT"4" files was not consistent with Server Express
703079
Signal Handling information was missing from the Documentation Master Index
703120
Documentation did not include all Rebuild Utility error messages
703773
OCDS 4.1.30 must be compiled and linked with bsd-sockets
703781
Change all text references of "Sequent" to "IBM NUMA-Q"