> Could be. But, if so, then which version do you get it there exists "AA" > "Aa" "aA" and "aa" in the same directory?
I think what is being said is the COBOL uppercases the specification of a COPY member name (not BLDL or FIND). For ordinary PDS(E) members, this qualifies as a favor. You can code copy foo and pick up member FOO in a PDS(E). But for USS directories accessed as PDS's, this is no favor, and I think the answer to the question above is AA, even if you coded COPY aa or COPY Aa. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 12:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: New free / open source z/OS tools from Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc- [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:43:37 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > > >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 > > > I believe BPAM/BLDL/FIND is case-indifferent and that any UPPER CASE > restriction lies in the compiler. > Could be. But, if so, then which version do you get it there exists "AA" "Aa" "aA" and "aa" in the same directory? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
