What version of COBOL can a Gen user exit be compiled with?

Products

• Gen
• Gen - Workstation Toolset
• Gen - Host Encyclopedia
• Gen - Run Time Distributed

Issue/Introduction

The Gen 8.6 Release Notes state:
z/OS Gen 8.6 GA COBOL Runtimes Compiled with COBOL 5 and Upgrade PTFs Recompile Gen 8.6 Runtimes with COBOL 6.2
With the CA Gen 8.6 GA release, the z/OS COBOL runtimes are compiled with COBOL V5.1.1 and require runtime support for Enterprise COBOL V5. With the Gen 8.6 Upgrade PTFs, the z/OS COBOL runtimes are compiled with COBOL V6.2 and require runtime support for Enterprise COBOL V6.2.  

You may need to apply IBM PTFs to the Language Environment for the runtime support. 

The CA Gen 8.6 z/OS runtimes will run with CA Gen code that was generated and installed with COBOL V5, COBOL V6 or with COBOL V4.  

z/OS applications that are generated with CA Gen 8.6 can use COBOL V4R2 or later.

What version of COBOL should Gen user exits use?

Environment

Release: 8.6

Component: z/OS Runtime (Host Encyclopedia or z/OS Implementation Toolset)

Resolution

User exits can be compiled in Gen 8.6 with COBOL V4R2 or V5Rx or V6Rx.