Hi Michael, thanks for your effort and for the pointers:
> * > <https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub21-2.pdf>Federal > Information Processing Standards Publication: programming language > COBOL (nist.gov) **-- > Language Definition, no test programs > * > <https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication500-203.pdf>Conformance > test specifications for COBOL intrinsic function module (nist.gov) **-- > Descriptions of test cases, no test programs > * > <https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub21-3-1990.pdf>Federal > Information Processing Standards Publication: COBOL (nist.gov) **-- > Announcement of new standards document, no test programs > * > <https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/PB89151310.xhtml>COBOL > 85 Compiler Validation System (CCVS 85) User Guide (Version 2.0). | > National Technical Reports Library - NTIS **-- > Mentions testing and validation, but contains no reference to test programs > or: > * <https://samate.nist.gov/SARD/test-suites>Test suites - NIST > Software Assurance Reference Dataset **-- > Lots of test suites - but not for Cobol. > These folks might have it - > <https://gitlab.cobolworx.com/COBOLworx/gcc-cobol/-/tree/3c7d783ad3b7952c5ebe8ae52e6b339e471d56bd/gcc/cobol>gcc/cobol > · 3c7d783ad3b7952c5ebe8ae52e6b339e471d56bd · COBOLworx / gcc-cobol · > GitLab **-- > Those folks are doing a lot of interesting stuff. But their repository has only a very partial subset of the NIST test suite. :-( I'll try to contact them. Thanks for the pointer :-) Thanks again & kind regards, Abe === > > > At 02:55 AM 10/4/2024, Abe Kornelis wrote: >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >> All, >> >> I am reaching out on behalf of the z390 development/support team. >> >> Many years ago one of our contributors copied the NIST test suite for >> Cobol >> from the NIST web site to use as a test bench while developing our >> zCobol compiler. >> Unfortunately, the copy in our archive has become damaged. >> >> I searched the NIST web site to obtain a fresh copy, but I failed to >> locate it. >> >> If anyone has a suggestion how I might refresh our copy of the test >> suite, >> that would be highly appreciated. Suggestions for an alternative >> to the NIST test suite for validating compiler function would be very >> helpful too. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Abe Kornelis >> ========== >> >> PS: you can find more info about the z390 project on z390.org >> and more info about the zCobol component on zcobol .org >> >> Abe >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
