On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:25:23 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>For Enterprise COBOL v4.1 and 4.2, if you are loading the compiler from an
>assembler program and want to override SYSOPTF or DBRMLIB, they are entries
>20 and 21 respectively in the Alternative DD name list.
>
>For Enterprise COBOL v5.1, if you want to override SYSOPTF or DBRMLIB, they
>are reversed at entries 21 and 20 respectively in the Alternative DD name
>list.
>
>C'mon, man!
>
Dammit!
o When there are so many, they should be keyworded, not positional!
o And, as I've said before (more than once), this should all be handled
by ATTACH, and completely transparent to the application! E.g.:
ATTACH ...,ALTDD=((SYSOPTF,SYS00042),(DBRMLIB,SYS00043))
... the compiler should just OPEN SYSOPTF and DBRMLIB as it always does,
completely oblivious to the mapping.
-- gil
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