VisualAge COBOL (was: COBOL/DB2 Date edit question

"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You might not be able to support the ! in the name in Visual Age COBOL (which
is actually MicroSoft rebadged)


IBM's VisualAge COBOL has *nothing* to do with any Microsoft *or* Micro Focus
product products. IBM's original "IBM COBOL/2" product was a rebadged (slightly
modified) version of Micro Focus' COBOL/2 product (as was Microsoft's COBOL V4 -
as I recall its name). However, all the VisualAge (and later) IBM products are
ports (sort-of) of IBM's mainframe compilers. (The original PC and AIX
front-ends were identical to the then-current IBM mainframe compiler -- with a
separate back-end. Since then there have been some divergencies.)

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Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com


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