"I believe COBOL V5 stated that recompile would work for correct programs. I don't know if that statement is true or not, or what exactly is definitively meant by "correct", but I think that ABO's more conservative approach is expected to work even for programs that do not work upon recompile with COBOL V5. Of course once one error has been found in an implementation, most bets are off. "
My interpretation is this: "If the program is written in such a way that it complies with what is explicitly documented for the version of Enterprise COBOL that the program was last compiled with, that documentation being the appropriate Language Reference, Programming Guide and Migration Guide, and that all the data referenced by the given program "complies with its PICture", then that will work in an identical manner with Enterprise COBOL V5+." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
