April 22, 1999 J4/99-0195
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Accredited Standards Committee
NCITS Reply to: Don Schricker
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J4 MEETING 219 AGENDA
Organization: J4 COBOL Technical Committee
Meeting Dates: May 17-22, 1999 (Monday - Saturday)
Time: 8:30-6:00 (all days except Thursday)
8:30-4:30 (Thursday)
Meeting Registration Fee Per J4 Member: $150
Meeting Location: Homewood Suites - Harrisburg West
5001 Ritter Road
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055
phone: (717) 697-4900 or (800) CALL-HOM
fax: (717) 697-9101
Host: Mr. Raymond W. Fisher, EDS
Scheduled Items:
26. Review of plans - scheduled for 2:00 Saturday
Note: @ indicates items not yet received
1. Membership report
2. Distribution of documents
3. Approval of agenda
4. Standing Documents - no action requirement unless an issue is raised
4.1 98-0305 (S-4) - Guidelines for Hosting a Meeting (Fisher)
4.2 99-0119 (S5) COBOL Standard Style Guide (Nelson)
4.3 S-9 - Template for E, EF, and A documents
4.4 94-0418 (S-10) - Directions to the Secretary (Beit-Aharon)
4.5 98-0311 (S-11) Template for Full Revision change proposals (Fisher)
4.6 98-0409 (S-13) - Known Errors Tracking Document (Fisher)
4.7 98-0058 (S-14) – J4 Internal procedures (Schricker)
4.8 98-0579 (S-15) - J4 New Member Packet (Schricker)
4.9 98-0056 (S-16) - Candidate Features for a Future Revision (Schricker)
4.10 99-0181 (S-17) - Guide to J4 electronic document distribution (Wallace)
4.11 99-0135 - J4 Document Register - 1999 (Mehta)
5. Meeting planning
5.1 Future meetings
5.2 Breakfast
5.3 Break length during a 2-week meeting
6. Treasurer's report
6.1 99-0147 - Treasurer's Report for Meeting 218 (Brieschke)
7. Action Item and Dynamic Document Assignments (Fisher)
8. Approval of minutes
99-0144 - J4 Meeting 218 Minutes (Fisher)
9. Processing of Input documents
10. Report of J4 Chair
10.1 97-0231 (IT/97-0355) - Clarification of Web Distribution of Standards (NCITS Secretariat)
97-0232 - Response to IT/97-0355, Clarification of Web Distribution of Standards (Schricker)
11. Controversial Items
11.1 Dynamic tables - tabled for the results of the WG4 poll
99-0153 - Dynamic table simplification (Karlin)
99-0152 - Dynamic table simplification concepts (Karlin)
99-0137 - Remove dynamic tables (Klein)
12. Processing of Base Document
12.1 Status of Base Document (Nelson)
12.2 99-0187 - Draft schedule for revision of COBOL (Wallace)
13. Review of EF and WR documents that were "approved as modified"
13.1 @EF309.2 - CODESET Hardware Dependency (Wallace)
13.2 @EF361.5 Simple insertion to left of float ins (IQ2529) (Nelson)
13.3 99-0061 - Externalized names (Reimann)
13.4 99-0168 - IMPLEMENTS clause (Noba/Reimann)
13.5 99-0172 - CALL/INVOKE corrections (Reimann)
13.6 99-0169 - Files and objects, Persistence attributes (98-0487) (Reimann)
13.7 99-0171 - Consolidate Uniqueness of References with Identifiers (98-0423/37) (Reimann)
13.8 99-0159 - Page layout diagram clarification (Karlin)
13.9 @Clarify method search rules (Wallace)
13.10 99-0161 - Fixes resulting from quality review comments (Schricker)
13.11 99-0165 - Rewrite of the PICTURE Clause, version 5 (Ebbinkhuijsen) - discuss unresolved issues
13.12 99-0177 - EXIT PROGRAM and CANCEL (Schricker)
14. Tracking of public review comments on the CD and the responses to them
14.1 International Comments
97-0351 - Disposition of Comments Report for ISO/IEC CD 1989 (Wallace)
98-0405 - Status of comments on COBOL Committee Draft 1 (Wallace)
99-0103 - Status of comments on COBOL committee draft (Wallace)
14.2 U. S. Comments
97-0318 - J4 Response to U.S. Public Review Comments on COBOL WD 1.4 (Schricker)
98-0536 - Tracking List for CD Public Review Comments (Fisher)
15. Items requiring significant direction
15.1 @Internationalization cleanup (96-0488/6, 20, 21) (Wallace)
15.1.1 @Internationalization – Miscellaneous (Wallace)
15.1.2 @Investigate issues of code-set mapping for locale (98-0276 open issues 6, 8) (Wallace)
15.2 @Investigate user-defined area of alphabets (Takagi)
15.3 99-0190 - SPECIAL-NAMES cleanup (98-0467/15; 98-0475/28a-c; 98-0512/12; 98-0571/4) (Reimann)
15.4 @Parameterized classes (Schricker)
15.5 @Repository updating; checking of definitions and of conformance (Schricker)
15.6 @Logical and physical files (Nelson)
99-0002 - Questions on changes of file to file connector (Nelson)
99-0009 - Questions on changes of file to file connector (Reimann)
99-0049 - File and file connector (Wallace)
99-0056 - Files and file connectors (Reimann)
15.7 @Bit and national groups (Wallace)
99-0154 - RENAMES clause (Ebbinkhuijsen)
99-0155 - REDEFINES clause (Ebbinkhuijsen)
15.8 99-0162 - Restore ANY LENGTH clause (Reimann)
15.9 @FINALIZE method (Satoh/Takagi)
15.10 99-0163 - Hexadecimal literals (Reimann)
15.11 @File sharing updates (Nelson)
16. Quality review comment processing
16.1 Comments that have not been processed
16.1.1 98-0499 - Detailed Technical Cmts on CD1.4 from ITSCJ (Noba/Konishi/Ono/Takagi)
@Analysis of 98-0499 (Nelson)
16.1.2 98-0505 - Review comments of BSI - COBOL Panel - September 1998 (UK)
comment 1040: change the example and/or add an iso note
@Analysis of 98-0505 (Nelson)
16.1.3 99-0038 - Quality review, miscellaneous - 1/13/1999 (Wallace)
16.1.4 99-0042 - Editorial changes to the REDEFINES clause (Ebbinkhuijsen)
16.1.5 99-0043 - Editorial corrections to the SIGN clause (Ebbinkhuijsen)
16.1.6 99-0071 - Misuse of "digit" (Piggott)
16.1.7 99-0132 - Transfer of control (Schricker)
16.1.8 99-0134 - Syntactic Ambiguity in EVALUATE statement (Klein)
16.1.9 98-0492 - (Quality Review) Follow-up on Earlier Comments (Klein)
16.1.10 98-0468 - CD 1.4 quality review - Definitions (Wallace)
98-0520 - Definitions (Ebbinkhuijsen)
16.2 Comments with status Deferred, Uncertain, Under Investigation, ...
16.2.1 98-0423 - COBOL CD 1.4 Chapters 1 thru 12 (Bart) - item 44
16.2.2 98-0434 - Detailed Technical Comments from Hitachi – part 1 - item 20c
16.2.3 98-0440 - Detailed Technical Comments from Hitachi – part 2 - items 16, 17, 20a, 20b
16.2.4 98-0452 - COBOL CD 1.4 Chapter 13 - Data Division (Bart) - item 20
16.2.5 98-0454 - COBOL CD 1.4 Chapter 14 -- Procedure Division (Bart) items 25, 28
16.2.6 98-0458 - CD 1.4 review comments – 9/1/98 (Wallace) - items 1, 2
16.2.7 98-0459 - CD 1.4 - Chapter 15 thru end (Bart) items 3, 18, 30
16.2.8 98-0462 - Quality review comments - 9/9/98 (Wallace) - items 5, 6, 10
16.2.9 98-0467 - CD 1.4 quality review comments 9/19/98 (Wallace) - item 10, 26b, 26c, 27
16.2.10 98-0473 - CD 1.4 quality review comments - 9/23/98 (Wallace) - item 1
16.2.11 98-0475 - CD 1.4 quality review comments - 9/27/98 (Wallace) items 4, 6, 21, 28a-d
16.2.12 98-0526 - CD 1.4 review - changes to list of characters for use in identifiers (Wallace)
16.2.13 98-0481 - CD 1.4 quality review comments 10/1/98 (Wallace) - items 4 a-e
16.2.14 98-0512 - CD 1.4 quality review comments - 10/8/98 (Wallace) - item 14
16.2.15 98-0519 - COBOL CD 1.4 late comments (Bart) - item 15
16.2.16 98-0521 - CD 1.4 quality review comments 10/12/98 (Wallace) - items 5, 7
98-0523 - Comments on 98-0521 (Karlin)
98-0528 - (Quality Review) Alphanumeric Character Positions versus Bytes (Klein)
16.2.17 98-0527 - CD 1.4 quality review comments - 10/16/98 (Wallace) - item 1
16.2.18 98-0571 - Quality review comments - Internationalization (Wallace) - items 2c, 3, 7, 9
16.2.19 98-0574 - Quality review comments - 11/5/98 (Wallace) - item 14
16.2.20 98-0577 - Quality review comments - miscellaneous (Wallace) - items 3, 12, 20
99-0183 - Analysis of J4/98-0577, items 3 and 4 (Ebbinkhuijsen)
16.3 Comment tracking
99-0127 - Tracking list for CD quality review comments (Fisher)
@Tracking list for CD quality review comments dated 1999 (Fisher)
17. Minor corrections from the CD public review
17.1 @Make cultural col seq for indexed file keys processor dependent (96-0488/1) (Wallace)
17.2 @File concepts (96-0493/18,19) (Wallace)
17.3 @Directive differences: SOURCE FORMAT vs conditional compilation (98-0387) (Wallace)
17.4 @Eliminate use of second person in C.14, Cultural adaptability concepts (Wallace)
17.5 @Compiler directives and conditional compilation (Wallace)
17.6 @Substantive change for alphanumeric literals (Wallace)
17.7 @Clarify classification of indicators (Wallace)
17.8 @Opening delimiters of literals and the handling of text words (Wallace)
17.9 @Substantive change for new separators and indicators in REPLACE/REPLACING (Wallace)
17.10 @Corrections (98-0422/74, 79, 80, 98-0423/3, 8, 23) (Wallace)
17.11 @Review and update 13.2.5, Selection of character representation and radix (99-0075) (Wallace)
17.12 @Changes on CD comment on composite collating sequences (Wallace)
17.13 @Changes for CD comment 108 on record locking (96-0486/1,2) (Wallace)
17.14 @Reword GR 6b of DELETE to parallel GR 6 of READ; check other stmts (99-0094) (Karlin)
18. Corrections
18.1 @Add GR on page 7-9 for implementor-defined like SR5 (meeting 192) (Schricker)
18.2 @Investigate items 4 and 5 of "Free-form Source" in 95-0104, Resp to Jan 3 HOD Poll
(95-0024 (Schricker)
18.3 @Editorial corrections (95-0225/15) (Wallace)
18.4 @Use the terms "grouping separator" and "decimal separator" where appropriate
18.5 @Cleanup specification of USAGE clause and related items in the implementor-defined list
18.6 @Rewrite OCCURS rules to take report-writer (format 4) into account
18.7 @98-0290 – Documentation for automatic alignment (Murray)
18.8 @OO "type" investigation - based on 97-0287 (Mehta)
18.9 @Reference format and directive issues (Schricker)
18.10 @Source format and conditional compilation (Wallace)
18.11 @Text-words (Wallace)
18.12 @Definition of character (Wallace)
18.13 @Continuation of hex and other literals (98-0423/23) (Wallace)
18.14 @Fix comment specification (98-0423/24) (Wallace)
18.15 @Conformance rules (98-0425) (Wallace)
18.16 @Identifier precedence clarification(98-0434/11) (Takagi)
18.17 @99-0133 - Global names (98-0434/19, 98-440/13) (Schricker)
18.18 98-0550 - Miscellaneous (98-0440/21, 27) (Ebbinkhuijsen)
99-0166 - Entry-name clause changes (Nelson)
18.19 @Initial and recursive program concepts (Nelson)
18.20 99-0167 - Order of NOT phrases (98-0505/1051) (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.21 @Make PADDING CHARACTER clause archaic (Nelson)
18.22 99-0011 - Prohibit address of data item with USAGE BIT (Reimann)
18.23 99-0086 - Picture conformance correction (Reimann)
18.24 99-0044 - Removal of T-literals (Ebbinkhuijsen)
99-0050 - Amendments to 99-0044, Removal of T-literals (Wallace)
18.25 99-0045 - Parentheses optional with functions (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.26 99-0058 - Remove type-modifier (Wallace)
18.27 99-0067 - Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (98-0459) (Wallace)
18.28 99-0078 - Miscellaneous corrections (Wallace) - items 1-3 were included in update of 99-0093
18.29 99-0184 - IF statement (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.30 99-0079 - ACCEPT statement (98-0467/26,27 (Schricker)
18.31 99-0090 - ERROR clause on table elements (98-0466/11) (Schricker)
18.32 99-0091 - Literals and expressions in compiler directives (98-0467/3) (Schricker)
18.33 99-0100 - PROGRAM-ADDRESS corrections (98-0467/7,8) (Reimann)
99-0158 - Clarify SET program-pointer (Karlin)
18.34 99-0111 - PERFORM rule fixes (98-0454/13) (Schricker)
18.35 99-0116 - Intrinsic-function-names (98-0458/2) (Schricker)
18.36 99-0117 - Function concepts and exposition (98-0458/16-l18; 98-0463/14) (Schricker)
18.37 99-0120 - Reserved word clarification (98-0458/1) (Nelson)
18.38 99-0123 - Corrections to exception handling (98-0542/4, 98-0585) (Nelson)
99-0074 - Changes for CD comment on mapping of literals (Wallace)
99-0089 - Mapping of literals (Schricker/Smith)
18.39 99-0131 - Parameters are not aligned (98-0454/7) (Schricker)
18.40 99-0157 - Expand implied PICTURE clause (Karlin)
18.41 99-0192 - Parameter passing and conformance (99-0085/23; 98-0512/21) (Reimann)
18.42 @Definition and consistent use of "record" (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.43 @Inherited data clarification (Schricker)
18.44 @Object-modifier editorial work (99-0113) (Schricker)
18.45 @Find another term for object-modifier (Ebbinkhuijsen/Karlin)
18.45 @Investigate use of unavailable and not present in OPEN GR1 and associated tables (Schricker)
18.46 99-0164 - Variable length arguments (Reimann)
18.47 @Releasing record locks (Schricker)
18.48 99-0156 - Implicit CLOSE statement for STOP and CANCEL (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.49 99-0185 Clean-up MOVE (98-0574/10 discussion) (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.50 99-0174 - Formatting of the COLLATING SEQUENCE clause (98-0475/11) (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.51 98-0175 - Update general rules of the DIVIDE statement (96-0499/13,14) (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.52 98-0176 - Referencing "value of an index" (98-0512/15c) (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.53 99-0182 - UNSTRING statement (98-0519/15) (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.54 99-0186 - SORT and MERGE (98-0517/5) (Ebbinkhuijsen)
18.55 99-0188 - Misc corrections - mtg 218 (98-0521/2; 98-0571/3; 98-0475/6; 98-0484/3; 98-0483/4a; 98-0473/6; 98-0577/15; 98-0499/8) (Reimann)
18.56 99-0189 - Compilation group clean-up (98-0512/7,8) (Schricker)
18.57 99-0190 - Based items clean-up (98-0521/6; 98-0475/16) (Reimann)
18.58 99-0193 - MOVE rules for strongly-typed items (98-0481/4; 98-0574/10) (Reimann)
18.59 99-0194 - SET rules for object references (98-0574/14) (Reimann)
19. Input after the quality review
19.1 99-0095 - Processor-dependent features (Svalgaard)
19.2 99-0096 - Currently unidentified incredibly substantive change (Klein)
20. Liaison reports
20.1 WG4 - COBOL (Wallace)
20.2 SC22 liaison (Tauber)
20.3 The Open Group (X/Open) COBOL (Wallace)
20.4 The Open Group (X/Open) Transaction Processing working group (Tauber)
20.5 Universal Coded Character Set, L2 and SC2/WG2 (Wallace)
20.6 H2 data base (Schricker)
20.7 WG11 Data Interchange (Nelson)
20.8 WG20 Internationalization (Wallace)
20.9 Interex SIGCOBOL (Tauber)
20.10 OMG - Object Management Group (Schricker)
21. Development of a Technical Report for a Class Library
21.1 97-0043 (WG4 N111) - Class Library TR "new work item" process (Wallace)
21.2 96-0499 (WR-825) - Internationalisation of the class library (Clarke)
96-0507 - Comments on Internationalisation of the class library (Clarke)
22. Processing of interpretations for 1985 standard
22.1 Resolution of letter ballots
22.1.1 96-0391 (E-356.1) - Alphanum and Num in Compare & Move (Acks)
93-1229 - LB on 93-1260 (E-356) Alphanum and Num in Compare & Move
Yes - 10 (Fisher and Beit-Aharon with comments), No - 2 (Wallace, Schricker)
Schricker changed to YES at meeting 203
97-0315 - comments on E-356.1, Alphanum & numeric in compare & move (Wallace)
22.1.2 @E-357.2 - WRITE vs WRITE AFTER ADVANCING (Nelson)
93-1225 - LB on 93-1010 (E-357) WRITE vs WRITE AFTER ADVANCING
Yes - 9 (Schricker with comments), No - 3 (Anstead, Wallace, Nelson)
22.2 Interpretations in Progress
22.2.1 @E282.4 COPY and partial word replacement (IQ1989) unassigned
22.2.2 @E308.2 Undetected User Errors (IQ2204) (Wallace)
I2244 Undetected User Errors (Wallace)
I2254 Undetected User Errors (Klein)
22.2.3 @E312.4 Sort/Merge and IO Errors (IQ-2210) unassigned
22.2.4 @E318.1 Textname & Libname as impldefn (IQ2239) unassigned
22.2.5 @E320.1 Figurative Constants as Func Args (IQ2243) unassigned
22.2.6 @E328.1 Data Items, Class and Category (IQ2273) unassigned
22.2.7 @E329.1 END PROGRAM Header Level in IPC (IQ2274) (Tauber)
22.2.8 @E330.1 SYMBOLIC Char in nonnative Alphabet (IQ2275) (Tauber)
22.2.9 @E333.1 Evaluation of FunctionIdentifiers (IQ2284) unassigned