Link-editing with Language Environment an application with all NORES programs is not required unless you add an Enterprise COBOL program.
Programs that are compiled with NORES and are not link-edited with Language Environment are not affected by many of the topics previously mentioned in Moving from the OS/VS COBOL run time and Moving from the VS COBOL II run time. This is because programs compiled NORES do not access the Language Environment library, but continue to run in the environment in which they were link-edited.