Re: "Substantive Changes"

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 Standar
d
>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 try
ing
>to use Micro Focus extensions.

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