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javedsk12 · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:25 am Post subject: COBOL VERSION DIFFERENCES

wt is the difference between os/vs cobol,vs cobol ii, cobol 85,cobol 74,and is der any difference bewteen cobol 85 and vs cobol ii or both r same
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Nic Clouston · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:48 am Post subject:

COBOL 74 is the 1974 ANSI standard for COBOL and COBOL 85 is the 1985 update to that standard. OS/VS Cobol and VS COBOL II are IBM implementations of COBOL. If you read the stuff at the front of the language reference manuals for those it shpuld tell you how they differ from the appropriate standard - usually by providing extra features. Otherwise, have you tried searching on Google for COBOL and WIKI where you will find much information.
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javedsk12 · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:09 am Post subject:

can you put some more light on the same topic
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Nic Clouston · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:28 am Post subject:

No - I would have thought that the Google searches and IBM documentation would be sufficient. Also note that there is a COBOL 2002? which includes OOP stuff.

Suffice to say that each standard build on the previous and compilers are brought out to accommodate the changes.
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slade · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject:

I found this lying (laying?) around. Might help.

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COBOL's Geneology
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There is no such thing as COBOL II or COBOL III, though there is a VS COBOL II and a
COBOL3 CICS precompiler option.
Here is the history:

1984 5740-CB1 1.02.4 OS/VS COBOL
1988 5668-958 1.03.0 VS COBOL II V1R3
1989 5668-958 1.03.1 VS COBOL II V1R3M1
1990 5668-958 1.03.2 VS COBOL II V1R3M2
1992 5668-958 1.04.0 VS COBOL II V1R4
1991 5688-197 1.01.0 AD/Cycle COBOL/370 R1 (First LE-conforming compiler)
1995 5688-197 1.02.0 COBOL for MVS & VM R2
1997 5648-A25 2.01.0 COBOL for OS/390 & VM V2R1
2000 5648-A25 2.02.0 COBOL for OS/390 & VM V2R2
2001 5655-G53 3.01.0 Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390 V3R1
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Crox · Beginner Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 52 Topics: 9

there is a very nice book from Harvey Bookman
COBOL/370 : FOR VS COBOL AND COBOL II PROGRAMMERS
I don't know if there is a newer release now, but it describes differences between os/vs, vs-II (several releases) and cobol 370.

IBM writes in the manuals about differences between the new and old version.