Identifying Converted COBOL Programs
When the COBOL Unicode conversion utility for z/OS runs, it places a comment at the beginning of each COBOL program that it converts:
******* Converted for Unicode (national support) (date converted)
********************* DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE ********************
**** ALL SOURCE CODE CHANGES MUST BE DONE TO THE ANSI VERSION ****
******************** FOUND IN %PS_HOME%/SRC/CBL ******************
This comment line identifies converted programs in two ways:
A person looking at the program can tell whether it has been converted.
If you attempt to convert the COBOL source file again, this comment line prevents the conversion utility program from converting this program file again.
Note: Conversion utility comments for the z/OS Unicode environment include “(national support)” on the first line. The first line of comments generated by the COBOL conversion utility for Unix and Microsoft Windows environments read “Converted for Unicode”.