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I believe that you are correct.  I tried to find this documented in the COBOL
manuals, but couldn't (easily).  HOWEVER, I can find the list of what "is"
restricted under the current COBOL with CICS - and it doesn't include those
verbs.  Check out:


http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/IGYPG204/4%2e10%2e1%2e6

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Bill Klein
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"Clark F. Morris, Jr." <cfmtech@istar.ca> wrote in message
news:39587336.17BE2312@istar.ca...
> I am forwarding this to comp.lang.cobol to verify my impression that VS
> COBOL II, COBOL for MVS and VM and COBOL for MVS and VM have no
> restrictions on the use of STRING, UNSTRING and INSPECT.  All of these
> are 31 bit compilers.
>
> Clark Morris, CFM Technical Programming Services Inc., cfmtech@istar.ca
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: STRING, UNstring & INSPECT are not recommended
> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:14:00 GMT
> From: Patrick Lee <patricklee@whbhk.com>
> Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy.
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cics-l
>
> Dear all,
> According to IBM APAR II06138, we should not use STRING, UNSTRING,
> INSPECT because they will eat up our 24bit Getvis area. Any
> recommendation of alternatives for these 3 words????
>
> Thanks.
>
> Patrick.
>
>
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