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VS COBOL II COMPILER OPTIONS

ADV*

APOST

AWO*

BUFSIZE

CMPR2*

COBTEST

COMPILE*

FASTSRT*

DATA

DBCS*

DECK*

DUMP*

DYNAM*

EXIT*

FASTSRT*

FDUMP*

FLAG*

FLAG(I)

FLAGMIG*

FLAGSAA*

FLAGSTD*

LANGUAGE

LIB*

LINECOUNT

LIST*

MAP*

MIXRES

NAME*

NUMBER*

NUMPROC

NUMPROC(MIG)

OBJECT*

OFFSET*

OPTIMIZE*

OUTDD

QUOTE

RENT*

RESIDENT*

SEQUENCE*

SIZE 

SOURCE*

SPACE

SSRANGE* 

TERMINAL*

TEST*

TRUNC

VBREF*

WORD*

XREF*

ZWB*

ADD 1 BYTE FOR PRINTER CONTROL CHARACTER

SINGLE QUOTATION ( ‘ ) IS THE DELIMITER FOR LITERAL

APPLY WRITE ONLY FOR VARIABLE BLOCKED QSAM FILES

SPECIFY BUFFER SIZE FOR COMPILER WORK DS

COMPILE COMPATIBLE WITH VS COBOL II RELEASE 2

FOR DEBUGGING IN LINE/BATCH/SCREEN MODE

COMPILE COMPLETELY BY PASSING ALL INTERRUPTED ERRORS

FAST SORT WITHOUT LOADING SORT FILES INTO THE PROGRAM      

TO ACQUIRE DYNAMIC STORAGE AREA OF 24 BIT/31 BIT       

RECOGNIZE X’0E’ AND X’OF’ AS DBCS DELIMITERS

ROUTE OBJECT CODE IN SYSPUNCH DD DATASET (LRECL=80)

TO PRODUCE A SYSTEM DUMP OF THE COMPILER

TREAT ALL UNRESOLVED CALL IDs AS DYNAMIC (RESIDENT +)

CAN SPECIFY USER SUPPLIED LOAD MODULES FOR IN/OUT/LIB

BY PASS COBOL IN/OUT SORT PROCS BY USING DFSORT

PRODUCE A FORMATTED DUMP IF PGM ABENDS (- TEST)

TO PROVIDE DIAGNOSTIC MESSAGE LISTING

TO IDENTIFY OLD VERBS SUCH AS EXAMINE/TRACE

FIND OUT NEW FEATURES IN R4 BUT NOT IN R2 (+ CMPR2)

ELIMINATES ALL SAA NON PORTABLE ELEMENTS (-CMPR2)

IDENTIFIES NON ANSI-85 & FIPS STANDARD ELEMENTS

SPECIFY THE LANGUAGE OF ALL OUTPUT LISTINGS

AUTOMATICALLY SEARCH THE COPY PROGRAM IN LIBRARY

SPECIFY NO OF LINES PER PAGE FOR COMPILER LISTING

OBJECT CODE LISTING IN MACHINE/ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE

REQUEST TO LIST DATA DIVISION MAP

TO COMMUNICATE A NONRESIDENT PGM TO A RESIDENT PGM

GENERATE LINK-EDITED NAME CARDS

CHECKED SEQUENCE NO WILL BE USED FOR ALL LISTING

NUMERIC SIGN PORTABILITY & PERFORMANCE

SIMILAR SIGN PROCESSING AS DOS/COBOL OR OS/VS COBOL

ROUTE OBJECT CODE TO SYSLIN DD DATASET

LIST RELATIVE ADDRESSES OF PROCEDURE DIVISION (-LIST)

OPTIMIZED OBJECT CODE TO RUN FASTER (-TEST)

SPECIFY THE MSGCLASS DATASET OTHER THAN SPOOL/SYSOUT

DOUBLE QUOTATION ( ‘‘ ) IS THE DELIMITER FOR LITERAL

TO COMPILE THE PROGRAM TO BE REENTRANT (RESIDENT+)

ALL LIBRARY ROUTINES ARE CALLED DYNAMICALLY

PROGRAM LINE NOS ARE CHECKED UNDER EBCDIC COLLATING

AMOUNT OF STORAGE AVAILABLE FOR COMPILATION

REQUEST TO PRINT COBOL SOURCE LISTINGS

SELECT SINGLE/2/3 SPACING IN SOURCE LISTING (+SOURCE)

RANGE CHECK FOR SUBSCRIPT/INDEXES/REFERENCE MOD

SEND DIAGNOSTIC MESSAGES TO SYSTERM DD DATASET

PRODUCE OBJECT CODE WITH DEBUG COMPATIBILITY (RES+)

SPECIFY TRUNCATION ALGORITHM FOR A MOVE STATEMENT

VERB CROSS REFERENCE LISTING

TO SPECIFY AN ALTERNATIVE RESERVED WORD TABLE

STORED CROSS REFERENCE PROV DUP/UND/EXT/IMP ERRORS 

REMOVE SIGN FIELD WHILE COMPARING WITH ALPHANUMERIC

            *means NEGATIVE OPTION also available, For ex: ADV or NOADV

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