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This chapter lists those language elements which are marked as obsolete in
the ANSI X3.23-1985 COBOL specification. The language elements listed here:
- are to be deleted at the next revision of the standard COBOL
specification.
- will not be enhanced, modified or maintained.
- should not be used in a conforming X/Open source program.
- Associating the figurative constant ALL literal where literal
is longer than one character with a data item that is numeric or numeric
edited.
- The paragraphs AUTHOR, INSTALLATION, DATE-WRITTEN, DATE-COMPILED, and
SECURITY within the Identification Division.
- The MEMORY SIZE clause of the OBJECT-COMPUTER paragraph.
- The RERUN clause of the I-O-CONTROL paragraph.
- The MULTIPLE FILE TAPE clause of the I-O-CONTROL paragraph.
- The LABEL RECORDS clause in the file description entry.
- The VALUE OF clause in the file description entry.
- The DATA RECORDS clause in the file description entry.
- The ALTER statement.
- The KEY phrase within the DISABLE statement.
- The KEY phrase within the ENABLE statement.
- The ENTER statement.
- The option to exclude
procedure-name in the GO TO
statement.
- The REVERSED phrase within the OPEN statement.
- The STOP
literal statement.
- The segmentation module.
- The debug module.
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