Obsolete language elements are elements that are categorized
as obsolete in Standard COBOL 85. Those elements are not part of Standard COBOL 2002.
This does not imply that IBM will remove Standard COBOL 85 obsolete elements from a future release
of Enterprise COBOL.
The following are language elements that Standard COBOL 85 categorized as obsolete:
- ALTER statement
- AUTHOR paragraph
- Comment entry
- DATA RECORDS clause
- DATE-COMPILED paragraph
- DATE-WRITTEN paragraph
- DEBUG-ITEM special register
- Debugging sections
- ENTER statement
- GO TO without a specified procedure-name
- INSTALLATION paragraph
- LABEL RECORDS clause
- MEMORY SIZE clause
- MULTIPLE FILE TAPE clause
- RERUN clause
- REVERSED phrase
- SECURITY paragraph
- Segmentation module
- STOP literal format of the STOP statement
- USE FOR DEBUGGING declarative
- VALUE OF clause
- The figurative constant ALL literal with a length greater than one, when the figurative constant is
associated with a numeric or numeric-edited item