Service support for OS/VS COBOL and VS COBOL II programs

In some cases IBM® will continue to provide support for OS/VS COBOL and VS COBOL II programs that run under Language Environment®.

IBM will continue to provide service support for the running of programs compiled with the OS/VS COBOL Release 2 and VS COBOL II Release 3 and higher compilers when these programs use the Language Environment runtime library versions of the COBOL library routines with the following exceptions:
  • OS/VS COBOL programs running under CICS® Transaction Server
  • OS/VS COBOL programs interoperating with Enterprise COBOL V5 or V6 programs
  • VS COBOL II programs compiled with the NORES option interoperating with Enterprise COBOL V5 or V6 programs

For example, the library routines for OS/VS COBOL programs exist in the OS/VS COBOL, the VS COBOL II, and the Language Environment runtime libraries. OS/VS COBOL programs running with the OS/VS COBOL runtime library or the VS COBOL II runtime library are not supported by IBM Service. If your OS/VS COBOL programs are running using a supported release of the Language Environment runtime library, your programs are supported by IBM Service but they cannot interoperate with Enterprise COBOL V5 or V6 programs. .

In CICS TS (Transaction Server), you can no longer run OS/VS COBOL programs.