Using the listserv web interface for the first time, so I hope this goes
through OK.
In testing the new V6.4 user-defined functions capability I have found that it
seems you cannot have a separately-compiled-and-linked user-defined function.
If you separately compile and link the function for dynamic load and execute by
other programs, the other programs cannot just have a REPOSITORY paragraph that
names the function - the function source code seems to be required as part of
the using-program compile, otherwise you get an error message.
Example error message:
000001 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000002 PROGRAM-ID. FUNCTSTM
000003 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000004 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
000005 REPOSITORY.
000006 FUNCTION TST1FUNC
000006==> IGYDS0301-E "TST1FUNC" was specified in the "FUNCTION" phrase of the
"REPOSITORY"
paragraph, but it is not the name of an user-defined
function. The
phrase was discarded.
Does this mean that user-defined source code must always be included when
compiling programs that want to use these functions? That seems less than
useful to me because then there is no way to maintain such functions
independently of the programs that use them.
TIA for any insight you can offer.
Peter
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