Isn't it because MicroFocus Cobol compiles to some kind of tokenised
intermediate code that needs to be "interpreted" at run-time, and does not
compile to native machine-executable code?

Neil


Richard wrote:-

Guess what?  At a recent get together of HP-UX platform users of Microfocus
Cobol with Oracle Pro*cob (for a particular Unix application vendor), what
strategy did we all agree on as avoiding trouble?  When you install patches
(e.g. libc), relink Oracle and recompile the PRO*cob and Pro*C applications!