VALUE OF Clause

IBM DOS/VS COBOL ignores the following clause in a file description entry statement:

VALUE OF  value-pair-1  {value-pair-2} ...

Here each value-pair is of the form

data-name-1 IS  {data-name-2 }
                {literal-1   }

ACUCOBOL-GT ignores it also.

You may put a VALUE OF clause into a file description entry, but only when the compiler is in the IBM DOS/VS compatibility mode.