SRCFORMAT

SRCFORMAT option syntax

Default is: SRCFORMAT(COMPAT)

Abbreviations are: SF(C|E)

SRCFORMAT(COMPAT) indicates that each source line of the primary compilation input and of any included COPY text ends at column 72. If a source line is shorter than 72 bytes, space characters are logically added to the source line up to the maximum of 72 bytes. If a source line is longer than 72 bytes, only the first 72 bytes are used as program source. (Bytes 73 through 80, if provided, are assumed to contain serial numbers; they are printed in the compiler listing but otherwise ignored.)

SRCFORMAT(EXTEND) indicates that each source line of the primary compilation input and of any included COPY text ends at column 252. If a source line is shorter than 252 bytes, space characters are logically added to the source line up to the maximum of 252 bytes. If a source line is longer than 252 bytes, only the first 252 bytes are used as program source; the rest are ignored. (In extended source format, there is no provision for serial numbers.)

In either format, columns 1 through 6 are interpreted as sequence numbers.

Option specification: You cannot specify the SRCFORMAT option in a PROCESS (or CBL) statement. You can specify it only in one of the following ways:

• As an option in the cob2 command
• In the COBOPT environment variable
• In the compopts attribute of the configuration (.cfg) file

A source conversion utility, scu, is available to help convert non-IBM® or free-format COBOL source so that it can be compiled by COBOL for Linux®. To see a summary of the scu functions, type the command scu -h. For further details, see the man page for scu, or see the appropriate related reference.