Parse error with Function TRIM statement

SonarQube
1

Hi,
We are working with SonarQube Server Version 6.7.2 (build 37468).
The SonarCOBOL Plugin has version 4.4.

Parsing a COBOL source results in a parsing error. The piece of code is:
MOVE FUNCTION TRIM (W90-INTEGER, LEADING)
TO NtrySeqNr IN EntryInfo
OF W99-PRC-BOOKG01-RPLY

The parsing error:
Parse error at line 586: 574: ENTRYINFO 575: OF W99-PRC-BOOKG01-RPLY 577: MOVE NTRY-SEQ-NB IN NATB592-IND 578: TO NTRYSEQNR-IND IN ENTRYINFO 579: OF W99-PRC-BOOKG01-RPLY 581: IF NTRY-SEQ-NB IN NATB592-IND 582: NOT NEGATIVE 584: MOVE NTRY-SEQ-NB IN DCLNATB592 585: TO W90-INTEGER-R 586: MOVE FUNCTION TRIM ( W90-INTEGER LEADING ) ^ 587: TO NTRYSEQNR IN ENTRYINFO 588: OF W99-PRC-BOOKG01-RPLY 589: END-IF 591: MOVE BOOKG-DT-TM-GMT IN NATB592-IND 592: TO BOOKGDTTMGMT-IND IN ENTRYINFO 593: OF W99-PRC-BOOKG01-RPLY 594: MOVE BOOKG-DT-TM-GMT IN DCLNATB592 595: TO BOOKGDTTMGMT IN ENTRYINFO 596: OF W99-PRC-BOOKG01-RPLY 598

Is this problem known? If so, when is a solution planned?
If it is not known, can you have a look and provide feedback?

Thanks!

Best regards,
Henk van der Wijk

2

Hi,

What’s your COBOL compiler?
What’s the value you set for sonar.cobol.dialect?

Thanks,
Pierre-Yves

3

Hi,
We use Enterprise COBOL 6.2.
I have been searching but cannot figure out where the sonar.cobol.dialect is set. Can you help me how to find that parameter?

Thanks,
Henk

4

sonar.cobol.dialect can be set in the project or global administration, in the “COBOL” tab. It can also be set in the sonar-project.properties file.
The default value is ibm-enterprise-cobol, which should be fine for you.

The problem you face is indeed linked to the TRIM function.
I created SONARCOBOL-1547 to track this issue.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Pierre-Yves

5

Hi Pierre-Yves,

Thanks for your fast replies!
We are looking forward to the solution within a future release of the plugin.

Cheers,
Henk

6

Hi Pierre-Yves,
How are you doing?
Do you have any update for this issue? Developers are asking for the solution.
An update is highly appreciated.
Merci,
Henk

7

Hi Henk,
Sorry, I don’t have any update.
We should definitely fix this issue and we should do it “soon” but I cannot give any estimate.
Pierre-Yves

8

Hello Pierre-Yves,
I hope you are doing well in these difficult times.
Is there anything to report about this issue? It is becoming a more popular feature for the developers, but with a failing parser the rest of the Sonar messages are not visible.
It would be very handy to have it fixed.’
Can you deliver me good news? :smiley:

Thanks!
Take care and stay healthy,
Henk van der Wijk

9

Hey Henk!

This issue is fixed and available in SonarQube v8.4.

10

Hi Colin, Thank you. That is good news! I will ask our support team to upgrade to this version.
Cheers,
Henk