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E-COB: Cobol Compilation error "cob64: illegal format" with Visual Cobol (Doc ID 2577497.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Applies to:

PeopleSoft Enterprise PT PeopleTools - Version 8.56 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

On : 8.56 version, COBOL

Compilation with Visualcobol_devhub_4.0 fail with below error

ERROR
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cob64: illegal format 
cobsym_loc



Cause

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