There is. The 'cob2' command. It has never been set up here, as we've never had a need for it. Perhaps I will ask.
________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Vince Coen <vbc...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: New free / open source z/OS tools from Dovetailed Technologies Under *nix you set an environment variable in the bash (or what ever one you use) script This points to the directory path containing the copy libs and that directory path is mapped to the syslib you need. I am not an expert on z/OS but assuming you can do the last then the rest is easy. I was lead to believe that the compiler has a versions that runs under the *nix sub system how ever I have not looked in detail for this. Vince On 13/01/17 19:11, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:01:41 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >> The compiler then looks at the SYSLIB concatenation for a member named >> MYRECF. A "PATH" can be part of the SYSLIB concatenation. However it >> doesn't appear that there is any option for COBOL to look for a member (or >> file in the PATH case) to be anything other than exactly 'MYRECF'. So, for >> example, it would not consider 'myrecf.cpy' or even 'MYRECF.CPY' to be a >> match to the above copy statement. >> >> I'm sure there are other more complex options, but I'd rather investigate >> the "simpler" options first. >> > A shadow directory of symbolic links? > > In days past, in HLASM we used the user exits to do such mappings. Now we > use a cross assembler. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
