Microsoft KB Archive/34080

ANSI ’85 COBOL: List of Obsolete Elements

PSS ID Number: Q34080 Article last modified on 04-21-1993

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Summary: The following entries have been classified as “Obsolete” by the ANSI ’85 COBOL standard. 1. In the Identification Division, the following comments entries are obsolete: AUTHOR INSTALLATION DATE-WRITTEN DATE-COMPILED SECURITY 2. In the FD (File Description), the following entries are obsolete: LABEL RECORDS clause VALUE OF clause DATA RECORDS clause 3. Literal variation of the STOP statement. 4. Debug facility containing DEBUG-ITEM and the USE FOR DEBUGGING statement. 5. ENTER statement. 6. RERUN statement. 7. ALTER statement. 8. Independent segment and SEGMENT-LIMIT clause in the OBJECT-COMPUTER paragraph. 9. All “literals” greater than one character with numeric items. 10. REVERSED option in the OPEN statement. 11. MEMORY SIZE clause in the OBJECT-COMPUTER paragraph. 12. WITH KEY phrase in the ENABLE and DISABLE statements. 13. Two-for-one character substitution.

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