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DBCS Details (↑ Allowing Language Features)
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     The possible values of integer are:
 
      1  Behavior as in earlier versions of this compiler.
 
      2  Provides full System Application Architecture (SAA) DBCS
         support. This directive sets DBSPACE.
 
      3  Includes DBCS support as in IBM COBOL/370. This includes the use of
         PIC N, PIC G, and DBCS literals specified with "delimiter N".
 
     This feature may not be supported by your compiler.
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