Changes in IBM® Enterprise COBOL for z/OS,
Version 4 Release 2
New and enhanced XML PARSE capabilities are available when you
use the z/OS® System
Services XML parser:
You can parse documents with validation against an XML schema
when you use the VALIDATING phrase of the XML PARSE statement.
The performance of nonvalidating parsing with the
XMLPARSE(XMLSS) compiler option is improved compared to the performance
of nonvalidating parsing with the XMLPARSE(XMLSS) compiler option
in Enterprise COBOL Version
4 Release 1.
Character processing is enhanced for any XML document that contains
a reference to a character that is not included in the single-byte
EBCDIC code page of the document.
A facility for customizing compiler messages (changing their severity
or suppressing them), including FIPS (FLAGSTD) messages, is made possible
by a new suboption, MSGEXIT, of the EXIT compiler option.
A new compiler option, BLOCK0, activates an implicit BLOCK CONTAINS
0 clause for all eligible QSAM files in your program.
The underscore character (_) is now supported in user-defined
words such as data-names and program-names. Underscores are also supported
in the literal form of program-names.
If you use the integrated CICS® translator,
the compiler listing will now show the CICS options
that are in effect.
Enterprise COBOL applications
that use object-oriented syntax for Java™ interoperability
are now supported with Java 5
and Java 6 in addition to the Java SDK 1.4.2.