isCOBOL General

Question: I am getting an error 39,02 when I try to read my existing Vision file. I discovered that the record size is different than expected and my record has COMP items. Originally I was compiling with ACUCOBOL's -Ci option for ICOBOL... Read More

You can obtain a copy for around $30 from ANSI at http://webstore.ansi.org Click here or visit http://webstore.ansi.org and enter INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989-2002 as the Document Number. The title of the document is "INCITS/ISO/IEC... Read More

Question: When I compile I get errors such as the following: C:\2008_gui\OBJECT\MAIN_MENU.java:12810: code too large for try statement } catch (CallOverflowException ex$0){ throw new WrapperException (ex$0); } ^ What do I... Read More

You can specify a list of reserved words to suppress by separating them with commas and no spaces. For example iscc -rw=print,printer PROGRAM.cbl  Read More

Question: I have heard that isCOBOL behaves differently on a STOP THREAD statement since a YIELD is needed. Please elaborate.  What do you mean that a YIELD is needed? What exactly is the difference in behavior? What do I need to change... Read More

Question: It seems that the default value for the DATE-ENTRY control DISPLAY-FORMAT property and the formats used by the CENTURY-DATE, LONG-DATE, SHORT-DATE and TIME styles are different from those used by ACUCOBOL-GT. What are the formats?... Read More

By default the isCOBOL CALL behavior is to look for the called routine within the C routines before looking for it within the COBOL routines. When a C routine has the same name as a COBOL routine, the COBOL routine will never be called.  A... Read More

Question: Is there a runtime trace log feature? How do I turn it on? What configuration options are available? If I have multiple processes running, is there any way to distinguish which log file output goes to, or does all output go to the... Read More

Question: I have some code that uses M$ALLOC and then assigns the address of an array (in the linkage area) to the space just allocated. Code fragment below. There is a note in the migration section that “SET X TO ADDRESS OF Y” requires... Read More

Question: Do I need to recompile in order to run with each new version of iscobol.jar or other runtime libraries that you release?  I compiled with one build and then upgraded to a later build. When I attempted to run my program I received... Read More