I don't know what you wanted to "hear" from IBM. However, if your question is whether differences between these options will change run-time behavior, the answer is DEFINITELY yes.
1) TRUNC - is a compile-time option. Do you do compiles on both LPARs? If not, a change won't impact anything. If so, then: TRUNC(OPT) is DEFINITELY a better performance option. TRUHNC(STD) *will* change the behavior of applications that have binary (USAGE COMP, COMP-4, or BINARY - not COMP-5) where the individual fields can have values larger than the PICTURE specifies. (e.g. 32000 in PIC 9999 COMP) field. 2) INTDATE is a run-time option that ONLY impacts CALLs to LE "date" features. (Such calls can be explicit or implicit by use of COBOL date intrinsic functions). If you use LE callable services in non-COBOL (e.g. PL/I or Assembler) applications, then you PROBABLY want to use "LILLIAN". If you are a COBOL-only shop, then using ANSI will give you "portable" results that conform to the ANSI Standard. *** Is this the type of information you are looking for? This really IS all described (in more detail) in the IBM documentation. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED] >... > I'm merging two lpars and, not surprising, there are some customization > differences in COBOL and LE. Most are easily changed and don't really > affect how jobs run. However I have two differences that concern me. > > LPARA (the sending lpar) has INTDATE=ANSI and LPARB (the receiving lpar) > has INTDATE=LILIAN. Also LPARA has OPT as the default for TRUNC while > LPARB uses STD. I've asked IBM about these but they just quote me > sections of the COBOL manuals dealing with the options. They don't say > anything about what might happen when I change one value to another. > > Has anyone ever made these changes? I'm more scared about INTDATE; TRUNC > is more easily explained. > > Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
