Re: A couple of interesting COBOL V5 fixes

Unless you take the perspective that "everything that is not illegal is legal" - undocumented closing of "loopholes" or making undesirable (but legal) coding practices now illegal doesn't seem to necessarily seem to be in the best interest o fhte customer ... Chris Hoelscher Technology

Re: A couple of interesting COBOL V5 fixes

Very interesting stuff, Bill. Thanks for pointing them out! Just goes to show that some shops did "interesting" things to get around limitations within the COBOL standard. While IBM was "right" from some perspective to make the changes they did to COBOL, not considering (and why would they)

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Re: Two RFE's to please vote for

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A couple of interesting COBOL V5 fixes

> We have lots of COBOL that does exactly this. I voiced our concerns to Tom > Ross (aka Captain COBOL) on a GSE COBOL WorkGroup meeting in January. Tom was > there and gave presentations about COBOL v5 and ABO. Very interesting to meet > him and hear him speak. At that time he seemed to be

Re: A couple of interesting COBOL V5 fixes

> Firstly, evidence of IBM's plans to make V5 (and onwards) more compatible > with how V4 works. > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI59330 > > "In earlier versions of COBOL, customer source frequently handled > dynamically sized pieces of storage by using a PIC X(1) linkage