Limitations in COBOL 6.4, PL/I 6.1, and CICS 6.1 support

COBOL 6.4

  • The z Systems LPEX Editor does not support highlighting of user defined function names. The COBOL Editor does support highlighting.
  • Program control flow diagrams do not display changes in program flow that are made by user defined functions.
  • Data flow diagrams do not display the flow of data to or from variables in user defined functions.
  • The Perform Hierarchy view does not display changes made in program flow by user defined functions.
  • The Data Elements view does not display variables defined in user defined functions.

PL/I 6.1

  • No support is included for the MAXRUNONIF compiler option.
  • No support is included for the PROCINC directive. An alternative way to accomplish the purpose of the PROCINC directive is to use the PROCESS directive with the compiler option from the data set that you want to add for the PROCINC directive.

CICS 6.1

  • The z Systems LPEX Editor, PL/I Editor, and COBOL Editor support only the standard CICS TS API and SPI commands, which does not include variants such as the CICS external interfaces.
  • The COBOL and PL/I parsers report errors for the following EXEC CICS statements and options. The compilers process these statements and options without error.
    • EXTRACT STATISTICS with the POLICY or POLICYRULES options
    • INQUIRE POLICY, INQUIRE POLICYRULE, and INQUIRE SECRECORDING with the START, NEXT, or END options
    • SET SECRECORDING APPC, ASRUNTRAN, or BRIDGE options
  • Language-sensitive help for CICS 6.1 keywords is not available