RE: Re: [open-cobol-list] redefines problem

[William M. Klein]

both the YYYYMMDD and YYYYDDD "keywords" were added in the 2002 Standard
(for the ACCEPT statment) - many (most?) vendors added this feature (as an
extension to the '85 Standard) to deal with the Y2K problem.  I know it is
accepted by both MF and IBM - I am not certain how many others already
support it.  It *must* be supported in a 2002 conforming compiler. 

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> Yes, that fixes the size of `WS-FUPPENVI-DEV' larger than size
> of `WS-FUPPENVI-PRO'roblem.
> 
> Another MVS peculiarity that I have come across is
> 
>       ACCEPT FROM DATE YYYYMMDD
> 
> I suspect that YYYYMMDD was added to handle four digit years.
> The compiler give parse error, unexpected WORD.
> 
> 
> Finally, I am getting a warning message with the line
>        MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE TO WS-BILL-DT-HDFTR 
> that says warning: `FUNCTION' not implemented
> WS-BILL-DT-HDFTR is defined as.
>          03 WS-BILL-DT-HDFTR               PIC  X(08) VALUE SPACES.
> 
> I am not sure what this is supposed to do, I assume that it
> moves a reference to the CURRENT-DATE function into WS-BILL-DT-HDFTR
> but I am not sure.
> 
> David Korn
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