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IBM® COBOL for OS/390® & VM helps strengthen your program development efforts and optimize existing applications
Release 2 enables you to strategically position your application development for today's rapidly changing marketplace.
- Supports OS/390 UNIX® System Services and 31-digit decimal data, and offers BLKSIZE=0 specification support for SYSPRINT to set system-determined block size for the listing data set and support under CICS® for DISPLAY to the system logical output device and for ACCEPT for obtaining date and time
- Provides debugging and TRUNC(BIN) performance enhancements
- Includes DB2® SQL coprocessor integration, Millennium Language Extensions integration with COBOL, and enhanced I/O, permitting dynamic file allocation through an environment variable
- Enables linkage of COBOL applications using the DFSMS™ binder alone, with the prelinker required only in exceptional cases under CICS
- V2R2 raises the QSAM tape files limit to 2 GB and introduces a compiler option, DIAGTRUNC, that supports diagnosis of moves (implicit or explicit) that result in numeric truncation
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Provides a complete offering of compatible, cross-platform, cross-product compilers that support numerous platforms
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Defines and produces all the listings, reports, and displayed summaries that would normally be required from a COBOL application.
