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The DG Directive
Your DG Interactive COBOL source programs may contain:
* DG Interactive COBOL syntax which is not found in the standard VS
COBOL language.
* DG Interactive COBOL syntax which is found in VS COBOL, but has a
different interpretation at run-time.
In either case you must specify the DG directive when you submit such
source programs to this COBOL system. Your COBOL System Reference
contains full details on how to set such system directives.
Your Language Reference contains the DG syntax which is not found in the
standard VS COBOL language. When you set the DG directive, the DG syntax
is enabled within the VS COBOL language.
Features which are syntactically the same as VS COBOL features but have
different behavior at run-time, are described in the following sections
of this chapter. Unless you set the DG directive at the time the object
code is produced, this syntax behaves in the standard VS COBOL manner, as
documented in your Language Reference . You do not need to amend DG
Interactive COBOL source programs which contain these features, but if
you try to submit them to this COBOL system without setting the DG
directive they may not behave as you expect.