On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 06:01:52 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >At 20:01 -0700 on 08/11/2014, Duffy Nightingale, SS wrote about Re: >INITILAIZE COST: > >>Heavy emphasis on that last sentence. Just had a customer who >>didn't keep track of the number of entries in his COBOL table while >>adding new ones. Ended up adding entries way beyond the end of his >>table leading to altering the fields following the table to wrong >>values leading to very strange scary looking dumps that seemed to >>point to big problems in unsupported code! But, nope, simple, his >>table got bigger than the definition. > >I thought the code spotted an attempt to go beyond the end of the >table by exceeding the OCCURS value or am I thinking of PL/I which >would catch this error? >
It's a COBOL compiler option. The default is NO. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api/content/SS6SG3_5.1.0/com.ibm.cobol511.ent.doc/custom/igycch257.html Norbert Friemel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
