Summary of changes

This section lists the major changes that have been made to COBOL for AIX in Version Start of change 5.1 End of change . The changes that are described in this information have an associated cross-reference for your convenience. The changes with respect to COBOL for AIX Version 5.1 (both technical changes and editorial changes to terminology) are marked by a vertical bar (|) in the left margin in the PDF version.

Version 5.1

SYSADATA parse tree record and symbol record are updated to include the record key name support (Parse tree record: X'0024' and Symbol record: X'0042').
A backslash (\) escape character is introduced to prevent the compiler from interpreting certain shell scripting characters.
The runtime library components in COBOL for AIX, V5.1 cannot be redistributed with developed applications. The runtime in the COBOL for AIX product can only be used in a development environment, on the same machine as the COBOL for AIX compiler. Deployment of COBOL applications in an execution only environment will require the new COBOL Runtime Environment for AIX®, V5.1 product (COBOL for AIX library components).