| William M. Klein 2006-08-04, 6:55 pm |
| IBM introduced the BASIS extension
A) when everyone was still using punched cards
B) BEFORE there were competitors (Panvalet, Librarian, Endevor) for IBM
mainframe "source control"
C) it *requires* that you use the sequence area (column 1-6) with ascending
numeric info (which is hard if you use ANY COPY statements).
I think that Micro Focus (and probably CA-Realia) have it for compatibility, but
it really is not used much - and hasn't been for all the time that I have known
of IBM COBOL programmers.
--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:0JWzg.302940$iF6.122614@pd7tw2no...
> Pete Dashwood wrote:
<snip>
> Your buddy Bill gave you a gentle tap on the knuckles for missing that :-).
> Still you are not the only one. Having randomly selected a COBOL word to reply
> to Frank about searching on-line LRMs, I picked up on DELETE - COMPLETELY NEW
> to me ! -
>
> The DELETE Statement - BASIS Control
>
> Function
>
> The DELETE statement (under the BASIS mechanism) identifies lines of the COBOL
> source file to be ignored by your COBOL system. Any COBOL statements that
> follow the DELETE statement (up to the next BASIS mechanism INSERT or DELETE
> statement in the edit control file) are included.
>
<snip>
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