Compaq COBOL for OpenVMS VAXand Compaq COBOL Compatibility and Migration
B.3 Command-Line Qualiers (Options or Flags)
TableB3 (Cont.) Compaq COBOL Options Not Available in Compaq COBOL for OpenVMS
VAX
OpenVMS Alpha Qualier,
Windows NT Option Tru64UNIX Flag
/TUNE=keyword6
-tune
keyword
No equivalent qualifier

-V

/VERBOSE1

-v

/VFC7No equivalent flag
No equivalent qualifier

-xref

,

-xref_stdout

1Not available on OpenVMS Alpha.
6WindowsNT form; see /OPTIMIZE=TUNE for OpenVMS Alpha equivalent.
7The action of Compaq COBOL on OpenVMS Alpha with this qualifier is designed to closely match the default action
with Compaq COBOL for OpenVMS VAX.This qualifier is not available on Windows NT.
/ALIGNMENT=PADDING, -align padding
The Compaq Alpha Calling Standards require that data fields be aligned on
specific addresses (shown in those standards). The same standards specify that
the lengths of all data records and group data items must be multiples of their
alignments.
If /ALIGNMENT=PADDING or

-align padding

is present on the compile
command line, COBOL group data-items will be aligned on their natural
boundaries and those group items will be padded out to multiples of their
alignments. See the Compaq COBOL Reference Manual for detailed information
about elementary data item alignment with Alpha alignment and padding in
effect.
B.3.3 Qualiers Only on Compaq COBOL for OpenVMS VAX
Table B–4 lists the command-line qualifiers and qualifier-option combinations
that are specific to Compaq COBOL for OpenVMS VAX.These are not available
in Compaq COBOL, and there are no equivalent flags.
TableB4 Compaq COBOL for OpenVMS VAXSpecic Qualiers
Qualier Comments
/DESIGN Controls whether the compiler processes the input
file as a detailed design.
/INSTRUCTION_SET[=option] Improves run-time performance on single-chip VAX
processors, using different portions of the VAX
instruction set.
/STANDARD=OPENVMS_AXP Producesinformational messages on language
features that are not supported by the Compaq
COBOL compiler. (See /STANDARD=OPENVMS_
AXP and the Compaq COBOL for OpenVMS VAX
Version5.1 release notes.)
/STANDARD=PDP11 Produces informational messages on language
features that are not supported by the COBOL-81
compiler.
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