Comparisons of DBCS literals are based on the compile-time locale. Therefore, do not use DBCS literals within a statement that expresses an implied relational condition between two DBCS literals (such as VALUE G'literal-1' THRU G'literal-2') unless the intended runtime locale is the same as the compile-time locale.
related tasks
Comparing national (UTF-16) data
Setting the locale
related references
COLLSEQ
DBCS literals
(COBOL for Windows Language Reference)
DBCS comparisons
(COBOL for Windows Language Reference)