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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 23, 2016

Having wrong storage declaration detected.

In data declaration to bypass the old VS/COBOL II limitation of 32764 max per item the developers have sometime coded to contiguous 01 or 77.
Only the first data area is used so STGOPT discards the second at compile time.
Could the compiler points out this type of area (Usually some charts) ?

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Jan 26, 2017

    This is what SSRANGE is designed for ie if you exceed the bounds of a table, SSRANGE will warn you.
    If you don't see any SSRANGE issues, then you should be able to use STGOPT.