Changes in COBOL for OS/390 & VM V2 R1 Modification 2

• New compiler option ANALYZE to check the syntax of embedded SQL and CICS® statements
• Extension of the ACCEPT statement to cover the recommendation in the Working Draft for Proposed Revision of ISO 1989:1985 Programming Language COBOL
• New intrinsic date functions to convert to dates with a four-digit year
• The millennium language extensions, enabling compiler-assisted date processing for dates containing two-digit and four-digit years

Requires IBM® VisualAge® Millennium Language Extensions for OS/390® & VM (program number 5648-MLE) to be installed with your compiler.