Personally I have NEVER used subscript range.  I have always checked the upper 
ranges
Before I do anything having to do with indexing through arrays

Steve

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Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 7:40 PM
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Subject: Re: COBOL 5.2 Programs too large to compile?

Apparently, Cobol 5.1 no longer allows turning off the subscript range 
checking.  And the original post stated the failure occurs when the exceed the 
defined maximum number of occurrences.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Paul Gilmartin 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 19:08:08 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote:
>
>>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v
>>2r1.ceea100/ceea1mst83.htm
>>
>>
>>On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Cameron Conacher wrote:
>>> We need up turning off optimization and the program compiled.
>>> We are now seeing some coding issues. We have programs that SET INDEX-ITEM 
>>> UP BY +1 where the value would would be larger than the OCCURS clause 
>>> defined. Resulting in 0C7.
>>> We do not see this with previous versions if COBOL.
>>>
> The question then becomes, is this a new bug in the compiler, or 
> improved error checking discovering a long-standing error in the user's 
> program?
>
> -- gil
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