Application executables that were compiled using earlier Micro Focus products must be recompiled from the sources using Enterprise Developer. If you do not recompile, you may receive an error. The exact error depends on the operating system you are running.
Most Net Express projects should compile cleanly using your existing build scripts and makefiles without any changes to your code, as Enterprise Developer can use the cobol and cbllink commands to create .int and .gnt files. By specifying the ILGEN compiler directive you can also use these commands to create .NET-compatible .exe files, or use the JVMGEN directive to create JVM-compatible .exe files.
You might encounter some problems when compiling your Net Express applications in Enterprise Developer.
Micro Focus continues to enhance the COBOL language, for example, by expanding the list of reserved COBOL words and adding new keywords to it as part of new levels of the COBOL language (each Micro Focus release corresponds to a particular level). Applications created with an older Micro Focus product might use data names that are now reserved keywords in Enterprise Developer, which can result in a COBOL syntax error COBCH0666 ("Reserved word used as data name or unknown data description qualifier"). See Reserved Words Table for a comprehensive list of reserved words and level at which they are supported.
You should consider using the following methods to solve these problems:
cobol myprogram.cbl remove(title) ;
The command above removes TITLE as a keyword from the language so you can use it as an identifier in a COBOL program.
To use the set of reserved words that was used for Net Express v5.1 WrapPack 5, use this command line:
cobol myprogram.cbl mflevel"15" ;
$set remove "ReservedWord"
Or:
$set mflevel"nn"