Embedded null characters in variables

When you use IBM® COBOL for Linux® on x86 to compile source code that contains a variable with embedded null characters, null characters will be removed.

See the output of MY-DATA in the following example. The null characters are removed.
$ cat tcBlankReplaceNull.cbl
     000010 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
     000020 PROGRAM-ID. "TEST-CASE".
     000030 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
     000040 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
     000050 DATA DIVISION.
     000060 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
     000080   77 MY-DATA PIC X(5) VALUE X"4F4E00004E".
     000120 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
     000125     DISPLAY MY-DATA "<-".
     000130     STOP RUN.
$ cob2 tcBlankReplaceNull.cbl IBM COBOL for Linux 1.2.0 compile started
End of compilation 1,  program TEST-CASE,  no statements flagged.
$ a.out
ONN<-