Jow Howell wrote:

> isn't there a way (COBRUNTIME?) to tell Cobol to ignore this offending
> condition?

In a word - Nope!

Actually, I found this to be useful in Y2K remediation.  One of the
solutions that is touted for Y2K is date expansion.  However, if you
expand date fields, but don't expand the "REC=" clause on file equations
and build statements you risk losing data.  This helps prevent this from
happening.  Of course, if you merely expand buffer sizes but not FD
clauses in your COBOL program you may still have a data truncation
problem.

Glenn
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