#687 UNBOUNDED clause is missing

[Eugenio Di Lorenzo]

I believe that the UNBOUDED clause is missing in chapter 6.9.31 OCCURS .
The UBOUNDED clause, on the other hand, is well described in the grammar at 7.10.47.

[Eugenio Di Lorenzo]

I suggest the following new definition

  OCCURS [ integer-1 TO ] { integer-2  TIMES [DEPENDING ON identifier-1]}
  ~~~~~~             ~~                       ~~~~~~~~~
                          { UNBOUNDED  TIMES  DEPENDING ON identifier-1 } 
                            ~~~~~~~~~         ~~~~~~~~~

... etc 

[Vincent (Bryan) Coen]

P/O and @Simon;

The grammar is for v4.0 so I do not know if v3.1 has this option and in what form it takes as grammar only shows that subclause word UNBOUND is added to the OCCURS clause.

Not that I know what the heck it does.

[Simon Sobisch]

It is a 3.x feature and has the rules that come from the original place (IBM) --> only in LINKAGE, storage handling must be done manually.

[Vincent (Bryan) Coen]

I have search with online Cobol manuals for OS390 and zOS Enterprise v6.3 and UNBOUND is NOT present.

Pleasse point me to the relevent IBM manual (if poss as .pdf),

Thanks.

[Simon Sobisch]

Please see related [patches:#30].