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COBOL — Name scooping inappropriate within some mainframe environments

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  • Key: COBOL-6
  • Legacy Issue Number: 602
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Within some mainframe environments, only the first 8 bytes of a name within a CALL statement are significant. This restriction means that current mapping is not usable within such environments
  • Reported: COBOL 1.0b1 — Fri, 11 Jul 1997 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — COBOL 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    issue resolved, closed
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:53 GMT