John, Sounds really good to , I have another one I and trying to build.. I will tell you off list
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Jan 10, 2013, at 11:35 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > I am more curious about this, rather than having an actual need. But I > know many products, such as FileAid, can process COBOL COPY code to > allow a programmer to use the variable names that they are accustomed > to using. Unfortunately, some product, such as ICETOOL, use their own > format for the same. So I was thinking it would be nice to be able to > process a COBOL COPYBOOK and produce something more like ICETOOL's > SYMNAME format. Mainly because the SYMNAME is easy to parse. Does > anybody know of any FREE software which does this? > > If not, I guess that I could write something. What I was considering > was reading the directory of a PDS which is supposed to contain COBOL > COPY code. For each member, create a skeleton COBOL source program > which does a COPY on the member in the WORKING-STORAGE section write > this to a temporary data set. Then dynamically call the COBOL compiler > with the ADATA compiler option. If the RC is 4 or less, assume the > compile was good and look through the ADATA for the data related to > the COPY member. Use that to create records in SYMNAME style format > and write those to a different DD using the same member name as the > input member name. What say you? > > -- > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
