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 * RECURSIVE Programs

* LINE SEQUENTIAL /HFS File Organization

* LOCAL STORAGE SECTION

* INTRINSIC FUNCTIONS

* LE CALLABLE SERVICES

* PROCEDURE DIVISION USING BY REF/VALUE & RETURNING

* NATIVE BINARY DATA (COMP-5)

* ENHANCED CURRENCY SIGN PROCESSING (WITH PICTURE SYMBOL)

* 'ALL ' LITERAL IN SUBSCRIPTING

* OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

* 31 DIGIT EXTENDED DECIMAL DATA SUPPORT (ARITH)

* MILLENNIUM LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS INTEGRATION (DATEPROC&YEARWINDOW)

* DYNAMIC LINK LIBRARY SUPPORT (DLL & EXP)

* HIGH DEBUGGING ENHANCEMENTS (HOOK/SYM/SEP TEST)

* ENHANCED OPTIMIZATIONS (STD/FULL OPTIMIZE)

* DB2 SQL COPROCESSOR INTEGRATION (SQL)

* SUPPORT FOR OS/390 UNIX SYSTEM SERVICES

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