What's New in V5R4?

The following list describes the enhancements made to ILE COBOL in V5R4:
  • XML support has been enhanced. A new statement, XML GENERATE, converts the content of COBOL data records to XML format. XML GENERATE creates XML documents encoded in Unicode UCS-2 or in one of several single-byte EBCDIC or ASCII CCSIDs. .
  • Null-terminated nonnumeric literal

    Nonnumeric literals can be null-terminated. They can be used anywhere a nonnumeric literal can be specified except that null-terminated literals are not supported in "ALL literal" figurative constants.

  • New CRTBNDCBL / CRTCBLMOD option

    *NOCOMPRESSDBG/*COMPRESSDBG specifies whether listing view compression should be performed by the compiler when DBGVIEW option *LIST or *ALL is specified.

  • New intrinsic functions:
    • DISPLAY-OF
    • NATIONAL-OF
    • TRIM
    • TRIML
    • TRIMR