On 12 Feb 2014 13:59:28 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >>If your shop uses an IBM z series computer and it is looking to >>upgrade to version 5.1 of Enterprise COBOL and it is using Cross >>System Product (CSP) or its Visual Gen successor, migration may be a >>problem. CSP and possibly its successor forced an F zone on all >>signed fields with positive values leaving the D zone for negative >>fields. The elimination of NUMPROC(MIG) means this behavior if still >>existing can cause problems. > >In fact, there is nothing to worry about, please check before >raising unnecessary worries. > >Enterprise COBOL V5 has exactly the same sign behavior as COBOL V4 >for CSP, VA Gen and EGL COBOL programs. >In particular, CSP (and EGL COBOL) require NUMPROC(NOPFD), from the >EGL COBOL help at: >http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/rbdhelp/v8r5m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom >.ibm.egl.gg.doc%2Ftopics%2Fgegl_cobol_modifybuildscriptszos.html
If other programs that handle files created by CSP (and maybe its successors) were using NUMPROC(MIG) because it was more efficient than NUMPROC(NOPFD), then those programs may have to be recompiled with NUMPROC(NOPFD) because there can be problems. I ran into that with a program that for whatever reason did an IF NUMERIC test of a field that had be affected by CSP and using NUMPROC(PFD) with that program caused the field to test not numeric. Recompiling the program in question with NUMPROC(MIG) solved the problem. The problem is not the compiler options used for the COBOL generation of CSP programs, the problem is the compiler options of the programs that use the output from CSP programs. Why was NUMPROC(MIG) eliminated? Clark Morris > >Required options for COBOL compiler for z/OS >The following options are required for the z/OS COBOL compiler >and are included in the FDABCL, FDABPTCL, FDABTCL, FDACL, FDAPCL, >FDAPTCL, and FDATCL build scripts: > > LIB > NODYNAM (as further described later) > NUMPROC(NOPFD) > NOSEQ > QUOTE > RENT > TRUNC(BIN) (requirement removed in later fixpacks) > >Cheers, >TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
