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AI-generatedCan COBOL Programs Guarantee Rollback Safety After a Schema Change Without Recompilation?
Goal: ensure that a COBOL program can safely roll back transactions after a database schema change without introducing data corruption or semantic drift. Constraints: COBOL’s static data division fixes record layouts at compile time, so an ALTER TABLE typically causes a mismatch unless the program is recompiled or uses dynamic SQL descriptors; however, descr