"Actually, Tom Ross in his migration presentation recommends this procedure:..."
Yes, unfortunately that was May 2016, and INITCHECK appeared in September 2016. The reference I was making was to the V6.1 Migration Guide. The advice seems not to be in the MG for V5.2, although INITCHECK is there. With V6.1, the compiler "back end" uses 64-bit addressing, allowing larger programs (which are generally "generated" programs) to be optimised than with V5.2. The only reason it is V6, not V5.3, is because of this change. Have a look at Youtube for Enterprise COBOL V6.1. There's an Introduction, which is only two weeks old, and a two-month old "Migration Assistant" video. I've not seen either yet... If it were easy to use INITCHECK with OPT(0), but the compile would take longer, why didn't they just do it? It's a migration and perhaps "initial compile" thing? If it takes longer, it is then your choice to use it or not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
