Obsolete language elements
Obsolete language elements are elements that are categorized as obsolete in the 85 COBOL Standard. Those elements are not part of the 2002 COBOL Standard.
This does not imply that IBM® will remove the 85 COBOL Standard obsolete elements from a future release of COBOL for Linux®.
The following language elements are categorized as obsolete by the 85 COBOL Standard:
- ALTER statement
- AUTHOR paragraph
- Comment entry
- DATA RECORDS clause
- DATE-COMPILED paragraph
- DATE-WRITTEN paragraph
- DEBUG-ITEM special register
- Debugging sections
- ENTER statement
- GO TO without a specified procedure-name
- INSTALLATION paragraph
- LABEL RECORDS clause
- MEMORY SIZE clause
- MULTIPLE FILE TAPE clause
- RERUN clause
- REVERSED phrase
- SECURITY paragraph
- Segmentation module
- STOP literal format of the STOP statement
- USE FOR DEBUGGING declarative
- VALUE OF clause
- The figurative constant ALL literal with a length greater than one, when the figurative constant is associated with a numeric or numeric-edited item