Simple answer. LE used to clean up after sloppy Cobol programs which failed to close all opened files... without making a "fuss". VSCobol or very latest Cobol, no difference, any and all Cobol programs which end and leave files open. At some point, we hit it at OS390 2.10, LE stopped doing this. It started issuing C03 abends. In batch, not really a problem because the abend happens AFTER the job completes. However, your scheduling program will flag the abend, and eventually the programs must be fixed.
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