File suffix .cob for COBOL source
You can now compile a COBOL program by using a .cob
suffix
in addition to the .cbl
suffix.
IBM®
COBOL for Linux® on x86 supports the
.cob
suffix for COBOL source files.
See the following example:
$ cob2 -o tcCobol tcCobol.cob
IBM COBOL for Linux 1.2.0 compile started
End of compilation 1, program TCCOBOL, no statements flagged.