>If your shop uses an IBM z series computer and it is looking to >upgrade to version 5.1 of Enterprise COBOL and it is using Cross >System Product (CSP) or its Visual Gen successor, migration may be a >problem. CSP and possibly its successor forced an F zone on all >signed fields with positive values leaving the D zone for negative >fields. The elimination of NUMPROC(MIG) means this behavior if still >existing can cause problems.
In fact, there is nothing to worry about, please check before raising unnecessary worries. Enterprise COBOL V5 has exactly the same sign behavior as COBOL V4 for CSP, VA Gen and EGL COBOL programs. In particular, CSP (and EGL COBOL) require NUMPROC(NOPFD), from the EGL COBOL help at: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/rbdhelp/v8r5m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom .ibm.egl.gg.doc%2Ftopics%2Fgegl_cobol_modifybuildscriptszos.html Required options for COBOL compiler for z/OS The following options are required for the z/OS COBOL compiler and are included in the FDABCL, FDABPTCL, FDABTCL, FDACL, FDAPCL, FDAPTCL, and FDATCL build scripts: LIB NODYNAM (as further described later) NUMPROC(NOPFD) NOSEQ QUOTE RENT TRUNC(BIN) (requirement removed in later fixpacks) Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
