Obsolete language elements are elements that are categorized
as obsolete in Standard COBOL 85. Those elements are not part of Standard COBOL 2002.
This does not imply that IBM® will remove Standard COBOL 85 obsolete elements from a future release
of COBOL for AIX.
The following are language elements that Standard COBOL 85 categorized as obsolete:
- ALTER statement
- AUTHOR paragraph
- Comment entry
- DATA RECORDS clause
- DATE-COMPILED paragraph
- DATE-WRITTEN paragraph
- DEBUG-ITEM special register
- Debugging sections
- ENTER statement
- GO TO without a specified procedure-name
- INSTALLATION paragraph
- LABEL RECORDS clause
- MEMORY SIZE clause
- MULTIPLE FILE TAPE clause
- RERUN clause
- REVERSED phrase
- SECURITY paragraph
- Segmentation module
- STOP literal format of the STOP statement
- USE FOR DEBUGGING declarative
- VALUE OF clause
- The figurative constant ALL literal with a length greater than one, when the figurative constant is
associated with a numeric or numeric-edited item