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Can I use DEPENDING ON clause in included copybooks? What troubles me is that post-compile cobol binary depends on included copybooks. Is it safe to use varriable array that was defined that way?

What troubles me is that post-compile cobol binary depends on included copybooks.

What on earth do you mean by this? The whole point of the COMPILE process is to create a load module from the source. Once this is done, the source can be destroyed and the load module will continue to execute for the next many years without any source at all.

I've just solved my probelm. Sorry for ambiguity... I was simply tired yesterday night .

Glad to hear you got it resolved. But there was no ambiguity. Your statement that "post-compile cobol binary depends on included copybooks" is plain old, flat out, wrong.

This oddness was a consequence of last night .

And the "language shift" was not helpful either

Good to hear this is resolved - thanks for letting us know,

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