Well okay. Thanks. I wondered if I might report an error but I was not sure where the error might be (V4 doc? V5 doc? or no error, the doc truly reflects the software) and did not take or had not taken the time to test to figure it out.
I was working from the 4.1 U/G when I noticed the problem and I did confirm it in the 4.2 U/G, thinking it might have been a "version one" typo that you would have caught in version two. Thank you for the clarification. Glad to hear you did not introduce an inexplicable inconsistency. Take care, Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Ross Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 7:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: You've got to be kidding me! (Enterprise COBOL V5.1 DD overrides) >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. You have found a bug in the Enterprise COBOL V4 Programming Guide, sorry about that! We have never changed DBRMLIB from position 20, nor SYSOPTF from position 21, but we did have the order wrong in the V4 books. (We added SYSOPTF after DBRMLIB, so it was always after in the list) I went back further, and found another problem with the alternative DDNAME list in the V3R4 Programming Guide, it was missing DBRMLIB even though the code was there in the product. The good news is that the Enterprise COBOL V5 Programming Guide has the alternative DDNAME list right, and the order is the same (with the exception of V5 making SYSDEBUG 'not applicable') as COBOL V4. Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
