Micro Focus® Object COBOL

Compatibility Guide



Micro Focus®

Issue 5b
August 2001


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About this Book

This COBOL system supports many dialects of COBOL. This guide describes how to migrate applications from other COBOL systems to run with this COBOL system.

The final part of this guide provides lists for each dialect covering the features supported by this system, historical details of when the support was first provided and the system directives required for compatibility.

This COBOL system supports the COBOL language described in your Language Reference and Language Reference - Additional Topics.

Audience

The aim of this Guide is to enable you to migrate from any of these environments:

to this COBOL environment. It is intended to be used by users who want to:

Any error messages and numbers that may be returned when you submit your program to this COBOL system or when you execute the resulting code are different in the two environments. This should present no problems, but is something of which you should be aware.

Related Books

This manual is designed to be used in conjunction with the following manuals which are also supplied with your system:

For Conversion Series 5, you must also have access to revision 2 of The Data General Interactive COBOL Programmer's Reference Manual.

Notation in this Manual