- New compiler option ANALYZE to check the syntax of embedded SQL and CICS
statements
- Extension of the ACCEPT statement to cover the recommendation in the Working
Draft for Proposed Revision of ISO 1989:1985 Programming Language COBOL
- New intrinsic date functions to convert to dates with a four-digit year
- The millennium language extensions, enabling compiler-assisted date processing
for dates containing two-digit and four-digit years
Requires IBM
VisualAge®
Millennium Language Extensions for OS/390 &
VM (program number 5648-MLE) to be installed with your compiler.