Micro FocusĀ Visual COBOLĀ 2.3 Update 2 for Visual Studio 2015
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General Reference
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COBOL Language Reference
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Part 3. Additional Topics
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Double-Byte Character Set Support
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Environment Division
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The FILE-CONTROL Paragraph (DBCS)
The FILE-CONTROL Paragraph (DBCS)
Syntax Rules
In the ASSIGN clause, literal-1 must not be a DBCS literal and external-file-reference must not contain DBCS characters.
This restriction is removed.
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Environment Division