Here are more comments from my ETR with IBM"
I guess the rules did change(names removed), from my ETR:
David,
OK, found two pmrs claiming behavior changed by the APAR. It's related
to search/search all comparing the key. In this case we closed a
loophole after enhancing National datatypes and some XML/JAVA related
stuff.
There are two possibilities for the change in behavior.
1) APAR PQ95214 from June, 2005 changed the
behavior to be consistent with an alphameric
compare. That requires that after the
matching parts of the key and argument are
tested, then the rest of the longer field
must be blanks (not ignored as before).
2) A second possibility was that the unused part
of the table was not filled or initialized
with a high key, either HIGH-VALUES or all 9's.
If the unused keys are not initialized to a
high value, the residual data can throw off
the binary search.
Rgds,
xxxxxx,
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thanks for the update. Regarding #1, what you are saying seems to be a
change then from
This is found in 6.1.6.5 of manual Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, Language
Reference, Version 3 Release 3, Document Number SC27-1408-02, Program
Number 5655-G53
Operands of
unequal size If the operands are of unequal size, the comparison is made
as though the shorter operand were extended to the right with enough
spaces to make the operands equal in size.
If this is the case, why wouldn't there be a HOLD(ACTION), or at least a
HOLD(DOC) on the PTF? Seems like this is the ENT COBOL 3.3 was designed
and documented.
Dave
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David,
You're absolutely right. The reason there is no HOLD card there is
because we accidently fixed the loophole. I will publish this to web
to warn other users and update PSP bucket.
thanks,
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Ok, now we are getting somewhere.
If the old behavior is documented in the V3.3 reference manual and was
working as documented pre PQ95214, then you didnt fix a loophole, you
changed documented functionality. I don't understand how this can be?
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Dave Jousma
Principal Systems Programmer
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