Re: Supress Option List


"William M. Klein" <wmklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Do you SERIOUSLY mean the IBM "COBOL-F" version (that pre-dated their ANS
COBOL
> product that predated their OS/VS COBOL), i.e. the compiler that (sort-of)
meet
> the '68 Standard, but didn't even include support for the '74 Standard.
> ????
>
> Someone else may actually have a better view of exactly when/what
"COBOL-F"
> (from IBM) was. I didn't start using COBOL(IBM COBOL) until OS/VS COBOL
was
> available, in 1978 (or so - as I recall).

Bill, I think COBOL F was the same as ANS COBOL.
The manual I have, GC28-6396-5, IBM OS Full American
National Standard COBOL, shows, in the JCL for a sample
program, "EXEC PGM=IKFCBL00". This manual also has
the documentation for the first release of OS/VS COBOL
and the publication date on the amendment is May 15, 1974.
Only the standards X3.23-1968 and ISO/R 1989-1972 are
mentioned for both.

While I said "I think", above, I never used the OS compiler
at the college; but I do have a source listing produced by a
DOS compiler I used at work. The title on the output is IBM
DOS AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD COBOL
with the additional text CBF CL3-6, which I take to mean
COBOL F or ANS COBOL Version 3.



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