Enterprise COBOL V6.2 was announced! What's new?

Project and Program: Application Architecture Development and Integration, LE and Programming Languages

Tags: Proceedings, SHARE Providence 2017, 2017

IBM just announced Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.2, on the same day as the z14!
IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.2 exploits the capabilities of IBM z/Architecture
and adds the following new features and enhancements:
 - Compiler support for the new IBM z14 hardware and IBM z/OS V2.3 operating system
    so applications can take advantage of the latest IBM Z architecture and operating system features and capabilities
 - Ability to exploit the new Vector Packed Decimal Facility of z14
 - New and changed COBOL statements, such as the new JSON PARSE statement
 - Improved compiler listings with compiler messages at the end of the listing as in previous releases of the compiler
 - Support of COBOL 2002/2014 standards with the addition of the COBOL Conditional Compilation language feature
 - New and changed COBOL options for increased flexibility
 - Improved usability of the compiler in the z/OS UNIX System Services environment
 - Improved interfaces to optional products and tools such as IBM Debug for z Systems (formerly Debug Tool
    for z/OS) and IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (formerly EzSource)
 - Compile-time and runtime performance enhancements-Tom M. Ross-IBM Corporation

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