Fabrice Le Fessant

Rename is_test to cob_is_test in libcob as it is an extern value

It looks like my previous reply was rejected. Anyway, I don't think it can be that simple: providing a fixed quote for any implementation and its upstream in GnuCOBOL would either have to over-estimate completely the cost, or could put the company in jeopardy, as the most simple changes may sometimes trigger long chains of unexpected changes. In my experience, it works much better by involving the company directly into the migration project that needs the feature. This way, it is possible to just...

We have already started working on improving GixSQL in different ways, but we struggle with too many interesting things to do on this project and other ones. Our main customer does not use SQL for its batch (they have their own specific database), so we focus more on other tools they need... New customers with different focuses are welcome, by the way :-)

Do you have a (small) sample application that I could use to test Winzos ? So, in Winzos, you have an IDCAMS equivalent that you have written, or you execute the one of Z using some kind of emulation ?

The GnuCOBOL VSAM / ISAM suite needs utilities akin to IDCAMS. What do you mean ? Which part of IDCAMS would be useful to implement for GnuCOBOL ? I have recently implemented a parser for IDCAMS scripts, so maybe it could finally be useful if you give me a goal :-)

Optimization of memory usage in replace.c

At OCamlPro, we are working for the French Tax Administration to migrate a big accounting application from GCOS mainframes to GnuCOBOL on Linux PCs. For that, we added some support in GnuCOBOL for the GCOS dialect of COBOL, and improve handling of EBCDIC (as Simon already mentioned). We are also trying to improve GnuCOBOL in general, we have a set of such branches on https://github.com/OCamlPro/gnucobol , a GIT mirror of GnuCOBOL SVN. Another of our projects is SuperBOL, a set of tools for COBOL...

Add options --copy COPYBOOK and --include HEADER to cobc