Problem is, if one is doing cloud compiling off-prem, then one must do external translate for compilers.
Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks > On Jan 12, 2022, at 7:45 AM, Jon Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > > I might add to the existing comments that the internal SQL CoProcessor and > CICS Translator have been available since 2001...but why rush? > > Some of the new COBOL 6 language features are not supported by the external > translator, COBOL's TRUE/FALSE for example will grind the external translator > to a halt. More COBOL changes are coming that will not be supported. > > Watch our for bad coding practices because the COBOL 6 compiler will enforce > rules. Zero subscripts are treated as a value 1 in COBOL 4, but fail in > COBOL 6. Of course these have always been the "rules", its just that the IBM > compilers did not enforce them. > > Cheers, > > Jon Butler > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
