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Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II

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Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II

Q: Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II. (Most of our programs are written in COBOL, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from COBOL?

A:
The following features are available with VS COBOL II:
1. MVS/XA and MVS/ESA support. The compiler and the object program it produre can be run in either 24 - or 31-bit addressing mode .
2. VM/XA and VM/ESA support. The compiler and the object programs it produces can be run in either 24- or 31 - bit addressing mode
3. VSE/ESA support. The compiler and the object programs it produces can be run under VSE/ESA.

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