Component support of label processing
Job control statements make the label processing facilities of data management available to users of the operating system's assembler, linkage editor, Sort/Merge program product, utility programs, and high-level language program products. Table 1 shows the component support for each type of label processing.
| Type | Assembler | Linkage Editor | DFSORT | Utilities | COBOL | IBM® Compilers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD/CYCLE COBOL/370 COBOL for MVS™ and VM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS® and OS/390® | VS COBOL II | OS/VS COBOL ANS COBOL | ||||||
| Uses Data Management Facilities for Label processing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supports Standard Labels (SL, AL) | Yes | Yes | Yes | SL-Yes AL-IEHINITT AL-IEBGENER | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supports Standard User Labels (SUL, AUL) | No | No | Yes | Yes | SUL-Yes AUL-No | SUL-Yes AUL-No | SUL-Yes AUL-Yes | No |
| Supports Nonstandard Labels (NSL) 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Supports Unlabeled Tapes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supports Bypass Label Processing Option 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supports Concatenated Data Sets with Unlike Attributes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
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