Hi,

I am working on a POC for evaluating the Micofocus Visual Cobol converting from RM COBOL.

While compiling the Program in Micro focus Visual Cobol environment I am getting the below error 

I did change the below in the setting but didnt resolve the issue 

Please advise how to proceed further 

forgot to add the error from the compilation 

Here is the error message in the statement where FIRST Used . please see in the above screen print

The DIALECT"RM" directive only provides compatibility with a subset of RM COBOL. There are constructs such as FIRST/LAST in the START statement that are not supported. There is a list of some of the items that are not supported here: The FIRST/LAST do not appear on the list so the list is incomplete.

You can get the same functionality as START FIRST/:LAST by move high-values or low-values to the key and then doing a START < or START > respectively.

The DIALECT"RM" directive only provides compatibility with a subset of RM COBOL. There are constructs such as FIRST/LAST in the START statement that are not supported. There is a list of some of the items that are not supported here: The FIRST/LAST do not appear on the list so the list is incomplete.

You can get the same functionality as START FIRST/:LAST by move high-values or low-values to the key and then doing a START < or START > respectively.

Hi Chris

I tried with your suggestion but getting the errors related to the reserved word and duplicate data field issue.

The same program i compiled in RM and is working fine 

please advise how to proceed further 

It looks like you have more than one data item in your program with the name TPM-KEY so you will have to use qualification. Try:

move low-values to TPM-KEY of TPM00MAS

The START statement needs to have a condition in it.

START TPM00MAS KEY > TPM-KEY