MVSFORUMS.com

[rsantosh]

Hello,

COBOl V6 has introduced a new compiler option NUMCHECK(BIN) which is giving ON SIZE ERROR for EIBCALEN because it is defined as PIC S9(4) COMP.

[kolusu]

rsantosh,

You can get around the issue if you had TRUNC(BIN) compiler option, but then COBOL 6.2 had supporting apar(PH11667) to override that too. here is the link to that

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH11667

So if your shop already had this ptf installed and since you cannot change EIBCALEN defintion, you are only left with overriding the NUMCHECK option. You need

[rsantosh]

Hi Kolusu,

Thank you. In our shop default is TRUNC(OPT). So the only option we are left with is overriding the NUMCHECK.

Regards,
Santosh