Legacy COBOL Translation Command-Line Options

The following table describes the command-line options for the legacy COBOL translation.

Legacy COBOL Option	Description
`-cobol-legacy`	Specifies translation of COBOL code using legacy COBOL translation. This option is required to enable legacy COBOL translation. Equivalent Property Name: `com.fortify.sca.CobolLegacy`
`-copydirs <dirs>`	Specifies one or more semicolon- or colon-separated directories where Fortify Static Code Analyzer looks for copybook files. Equivalent Property Name: `com.fortify.sca.CobolCopyDirs`
`-copy-extensions <ext>`	Specifies one or more semicolon- or colon-separated copybook file extensions. Equivalent Property Name: `com.fortify.sca.CobolCopyExtensions`
`-fixed-format`	Specifies fixed-format COBOL to direct Fortify Static Code Analyzer to only look for source code between columns 8–72 in all lines of code. The default is free-format. IBM Enterprise COBOL code is typically fixed-format. The following are indications that you might need the `-fixed-format` option: The COBOL translation appears to hang indefinitely Fortify Static Code Analyzer reports numerous parsing errors in the COBOL translation Equivalent Property Name: `com.fortify.sca.CobolFixedFormat`