Unisys Cobol74 8 digit dates now available

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A new release of Unisys Cobol74 will return the century when you do an accept statement.<br>
Documented syntax: ACCEPT &lt;my ws date&gt; FROM TODAYS-DATE MMDDYYYY.<br>
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where &lt;my ws date&gt; is an 8-digit working storage item.<br>
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Undocumented syntax - they have also changed the DATE syntax, but did not document it. The syntax is:<br>
ACCEPT &lt;my ws date&gt; FROM DATE YYYYMMDD.<br>
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The Unisys interiem correction level is 17, a LFILES of *SYSTEM/COBOL74 should show level 45.189.8096 or greater.<br>
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