What is the difference between Cobol-2 and Cobol -3 ?

saties · New User Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

Hi

What is the difference between Cobol-2 and Cobol -3?

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Saties

Robert Sample · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:11 am

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Seriously, where did you get the non-standard terms COBOL-2 and COBOL-3? There is VS COBOL II (which is definitely not COBOL-2), COBOL-370, ENTERPRISE COBOL, COBOL for MVS & VM, VisualAge COBOL, OS/VS COBOL, all of which are IBM versions of COBOL. The international standards for COBOL include COBOL 2002, COBOL 85, COBOL 77, and COBOL 66. None of them are referred to as COBOL-2 or COBOL-3. Without understanding where you're coming up with the names, we're not going to be able to help you.

saties · New User Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

Can you provide me the differences between VS COBOL - II and Enterprise Cobol ?

Robert Sample · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:35 pm

VS COBOL II became available in the early to mid 1980's -- more than 25 years ago. If it is absolutely critical for you to know the differences between this ancient (in computer terms) language and the modern COBOL, I strongly suggest you start using Google to find out what you want to know.

IIRC, VS COBOL II's run time library was replaced by LE, none of the current XML verbs were supported, none of the current object-oriented pieces were supported, and support for the integrated CICS preprocessor has been added. There's probably a lot more but Google is your friend.

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:12 pm

Hello,