46 Whats New in COBOL 65
				Project and Program: 
Application Development, 
Languages, API's, and Framework
				Tags: 
Proceedings, 
2025, 
SHARE Cleveland 2025
		
		
		
			
		COBOL 6.5 has been announced and was available June 13, 2025. It includes
exploitation of z17 hardware, VSAMDB support, user-defined types, OMITTED class
test and OPTIONAL parameters changes, improved Integration with ABO and Z Code
Optimization Advice – new SMARTBIN compiler option suboptions. Other
miscellaneous changes: z/OS versions supported IBM Z hardware supported
ARCH/TUNE changes COBOL/Java interoperability changes COBOL Runtime updates Come
and hear all about it!
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
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