COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.08+, J06.03+)

Tool (page 525). Under that section and CODECOV (page 542), placed a reference to the
caution in the Debugging section.
• Added new intrinsic functions, TEST-NUMVAL and TEST-NUMVAL-C, to Chapter 14: Intrinsic
Functions (page 655). The TEST-NUMVAL Function (page 693) and the TEST-NUMVAL-C Function
(page 694) enable testing inputs to the NUMVAL Function (page 679) and the NUMVAL-C
Function (page 680), respectively, to validate input strings for correct formation without risking
the premature termination of the program.
Added TEST-NUMVAL and TEST-NUMVAL-C to the table of Integer Intrinsic Functions (page 656).
• Under the RECEIVE-CONTROL Paragraph (page 143) in Chapter 6: Environment Division
(page 101), indicated that the upper limit is 2MB for the reply-length of the REPLY
CONTAINS phrase.
• Under the RECORD CONTAINS Clause (page 163) in Chapter 7: Data Division (page 153),
expanded the range definition for the length-fixed, length-min, and length-max
options of contains-phrase-fixed.
• Under Size (page 726) in Chapter 20: HP COBOL Limits (page 726), changed the table under
Record or table to show “2 MB” for “File assigned to $RECEIVE” and “2 MB for files assigned
to $RECEIVE; 32,767 for other files” for “File Section.”
• Added a new item to the Summary of $RECEIVE Rules (page 924) in Chapter 31: Process
Initiation, Communication, and Management (page 915).
New and Changed Information for 520347–004
The November 2006 edition of the manual, 520347–004, contains these changes:
• COBOL 2002 enhancements:
STANDARD directive and -Wstandard option◦
◦ MIGRATION-CHECK directive and -Wmigration_check option
◦ ALLOCATE statement
◦ Changes to SET statement
◦ FREE statement
◦ BASED clause
◦ Additional compiler warning and error messages
◦ GLOBALIZED directive and -Wglobalized option for improved performance
• CODECOV directive and -Wcodecov option to generate object code for use with the Code
Coverage Tool
• Native Inspect support for COBOL programs
• OBJEXTENT directive to allow for larger object files
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