Precompiler option to avoid 'BEGIN DECLARE SECTION'

luismigallego · #1 (**permalink**) 02-10-05, 07:17

hI,
I am working with DB2 v8 in an AIX operative system trying to compile COBOL programs.
I would like to avoid de DB2 sentence 'BEGIN DECLARE SECTION' to define 'variables host' in the working storage section of the cobol program, but I can't find wich is the precompiler directive to do it.

In know than in DB2 v7 in operative system z/OS (In a Mainframe) the precompiler directive is STDSQL(NO) but I can't find the equivalent in AIX.

Regards.

GertK · #2 (**permalink**) 02-10-05, 07:58

Search the COBOL compiler docs, which compiler are you compiling with?

jacampbell · #3 (**permalink**) 02-10-05, 20:31

DB2 for MVS (from which DB2 for zOS is a direct decendant) was written before there was an SQL Standard. Consequently it has options for ignoring the standard that DB2 for LUW doesn't have - otherwise working code would break.

There's nothing to stop you adding the DECLARE SECTION statements.

James Campbell

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