>I agree that is a likely to astonish but it is standard COBOL, no? No >different than if you did MOVE 'GOODBYE' TO SOME-VAR. You'd end up with less >than you might have expected.
This is standard behaviour in PL/1 as well, if not explicitly caught with STRSIZE. And it is standard assembler behaviour as well. The target field determines the length of an MVC. What is special about COBOL's standard: Truncation also silently occurs with computational fields. @John: There's the DIAGTRUNC compiler option which causes truncation to be flagged. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
