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

?
is a source text format indicator (like the asterisk and the slash) and is not part of the compiler
directive.
The question mark must be in the indicator area (column 1 for Tandem format and column 1
or 7 for ANSI format).
directive
is one of the directives listed in this section.
With these exceptions, compiler directive lines can appear at any point in the source text, including
those portions that a COPY statement retrieves from a source library file.
• Compiler directive lines cannot occur between the elements of a multiline COPY statement.
The syntax of the COPY statement, without the REPLACING phrase, is:
If, for example, the word COPY is on one source line and text-name is on a subsequent
source line, no compiler directive lines can occur on any intervening source line.
• These directives have restrictions on their location within the source text:
CODECOV◦
◦ COMPILE
◦ ELD
◦ GLOBALIZED
◦ MAIN
◦ MIGRATION-CHECK
◦ NONSTOP
◦ OBJEXTENT
◦ OPTIMIZE
◦ STANDARD
◦ SYMBOLS
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