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