Is cob2 just a shell script or a REXX or something? Or is it an actual binary?
If its a script, can you post it? ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 12:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: New free / open source z/OS tools from Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 19:18:53 +0000, Vince Coen wrote: > > >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. > > > In UNIX I believe that's not automatic. The application, compiler, > whatever, must parse that environment variable, breaking it at colons > and sequentially search each directory in the list. (Might there be a > library routine for that?) > > Library concatenation is one OS feature whose absence in UNIX I rue. > > >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. > > > I don't believe it's a distinct version. The one version simply runs under > z/OS UNIX, given suitable allocations and parameters. > > -- gil > > There is a UNIX command: cob2 which will do a COBOL compile and link. Basically this is just a "driver" which, as Gil indicated, parses the UNIX command line parameters, does dynamic allocations for DDs needed and then does (I think) a normal MVS LINK command to invoke the standard COBOL compiler. Note that any UNIX directories in the command are allocated to the proper DD and the "normal" BSAM / BPAM UNIX interface code in the access method takes care of the I/O. That is, there is no UNIX I/O code in the COBOL compiler itself. At least, I don't think that there is. This is why the COBOL COPY verb cannot process a file name like "SOMEFILE.cpy" and why the file in the UNIX directory must in in UPPER CASE, not in "normal" lower case. On my system (z/OS 1.12), the cob2 command's full path is: /usr/lpp/cobol/bin/cob2 -- There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless. -Jeff Polk Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
