With COBOL 6.2, are there changes the way INITIALIZE worked?

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With COBOL 6.2, are there changes the way INITIALIZE worked?

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We had been upgrading from COBOL 4.2 to COBOL 6.2. There was a program that ran fine under COBOL v4.2 and gets S0C7 under COBOL v6.2. it needed to initialize a field to prevent the abend. COBOL v6.2 is not forgiving of uninitialized fields. Any experience with this, please?

And is there some document explaining the behavior? I don't seem to locate one.
Thanks,
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