That's OS/360, not just MVT, and it applies to COBOL E and F, which do not claim to be standards compliant.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Joe Monk [joemon...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 3:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: C Not according to the MVT Cobol compiler manual... "The AFTER ADVANCING option is used for output destined to be printed or punched. When this option is used, the first character in each logical record for the file must be reserved for the control character. When the AFTER ADVANCING option is used, integer must be unsigned and have the value 0, 1, 2, or 3. The value 0 designates a carriage-control eject (i.e., skip to next page). The value 1 designates single spacing; the value 2, double spacing; and the value 3, triple spacing." http://secure-web.cisco.com/13JssaKkgEv6PvHbWqBb4_nGJr_KEk7X_p5dUxZ430B0TL067KAC3GmG62amVkyrK0wFJ6uAEiyuAI7pb90pBKUQu0efiy_EcUfFMps04VF_q3JCv2_EZfIyvaUoSxqVPc2j53HP4bEbd1UFUAFCLEfVb44yWkXMNs6D-ajkuaFWpwmOQ7DLdelU_kFoBfwK5MZ_99qKk1CuLZlVgozWOZL-_bSq_TGDGSJTg-n_WyQMcvJyYY36pAe8ZuT04bcBv85pG4_ec93Kta1h-fnUfm1av5W4Rrbx5p7qylU04uJOEM0P6WFyLKZsVsN9fcwPlF6x_1LZidv6aycTEAYyrPSpAWy7wZpPldHH-cnTUKc-qPz9772YMzNFNq0kfjiUmqVlSSL_YelM-_hg_l4oKtelOcnJWpjuuVTQ6Ppnp-zMhgROTwHMtUNj4JWJLEXBR/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bitsavers.org%2Fpdf%2Fibm%2F360%2Fos%2Fcobol%2FC28-6516-2_IBM_OS360_COBOL_Language_Dec64.pdf Joe On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:52 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > That's a bug; the carriage control character is supposed to be transparent > to the COBOL programmer. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 11:04 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: C > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:06:03 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > > > >I had neither mainframe COBOL nor SPPS skills but I'd written a whole > bunch > >of Microfocus COBOL on CP/M micros. > > > >I convinced them that I could do mainframe COBOL, which wasn't that > >difficult. When I looked at the SPPS code, it was macro Assembler, so that > >was the start of a short time with same. > > > My one foray into COBOL occurred when I worked for a small consulting > firm. Warm body with no COBOL skill. I developed a small COBOL > program timesharing to DECSystem-10. > > My co-worker carried it to client's IBM 360. > > Failed. > > Using AFTER ADVANCING construct in IBM COBOL clobbers the first > character of my data record. Who woulda thunk it? > > DEC COBOL, more wisely IMO, prefixes the intact record with LF, FF, > whatever carriage motion command(s). Better design; standard be > damned! > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
