On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:59:40 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >Tom Ross wrote: > ><begin extract> >In particular, if you have z/OS V1R13 running on 9672, there is no way >to compile with COBOL V5 to get a program that will run on that >system. ></end extract> > >Other statement-level languages deal with this problem by permitting >the specification of an ARCH level, and it was rumored (even perhaps >half-said in some IBM materials) that Enterprise COBOL would do so >too. > >What is the status of this notion? >
There's an ARCH option in COBOL 5.1: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/pdthelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.entcobol.doc_5.1%2FPGandLR%2Frlpre.html Norbert Friemel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
