In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/23/2005
at 11:04 AM, Rolf Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>the question is to which lengths COBOL goes to determine which files
>were opened.
No, the question is to what lengths a program should go in an attempt
to work around a broken subroutine; the issue would be the same if the
caller were written in another language.
>Since you indicated the files were opened (and not closed) by a BAL
>subroutine,
No he didn't.
>the COBOL code may not even be aware of it.
Nor should it be.
>It does take a bit of poking around to find the DECBs anyhow.
He doesn't need the (nonexistent for QSAm and VSAM) DECB's; he needs
the ACB's and DCB's, which are presumably already gone.
>However, since you indicate that you are dealing with VSAM files -
>are the ACBs that the subroutine used around at all?
I doubt that he would have gotten the C03 if they were.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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