Cobol - Re: "Substantive Changes"

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Re: "Substantive Changes"

Robert

2007-10-09, 9:55 pm

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:26:57 GMT, "William M. Klein" <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:

>When IBM went from OS/VS COBOL to VS COBOL II, they dropped MANY of their
>earlier extensions (e.g. TRANSFORM and ON statement) as well as '68 Standard
>features (e.g. NOTE statement and EXAMINE). Micro Focus maintained (and
>maintains) compatibility with OS/S COBOL as one of its dialects. Therefore, if
>you turn on OSVS reserved words, EXAMINE will work - even if you aren't trying
>to use Micro Focus extensions.

I tried them. EXAMINE worked with default options (none in cobopt). TRANSFORM required
OSVS.

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