H06.08 Release Version Update Compendium

Application Development Products

H06.08 Release Version Update Compendium—543560-001

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COBOL Substring Notation

For H06.08, Native Inspect supports COBOL substring notation when debugging

TNS/E COBOL programs. For example, given these statements in a COBOL program:

01 STRING PIC X(10).

MOVE "Hi there" TO STRING.

The following Native Inspect command prints two characters starting at index 1:

(einspect) print String(1:2)

$6 = "Hi"

pTAL

The TNS/E pTAL compiler (EpTAL) now generates nonpreemptable object code by

default. To direct the compiler to generate preemptable code, you must specify the new

GLOBALIZED compiler directive (Guardian) or -globalized directive (Windows).

Preemptable code is required when the code will be linked into a globalized DLL, and

is less efficient than nonpreemptable code. Previous versions of the pTAL compiler

generated only preemptable code.

Migration

The pTAL compiler (EPTAL) now generates nonpreemptable object code by default.

Previous versions of the compiler generated only preemptable code. Preemptable

code is required when the code will be linked into a globalized DLL, and is less efficient

than nonpreemptable code. As of the H06.08 RVU, if you require preemptable code,

you must specify the new compiler option GLOBALIZED (Guardian) or -globalized

(Windows).