COBOL Compiler options

2008-02-21 Thread Bill Klein
a preprocessed source code. However, run-time results are unsupported - because it will try and make the CALLs to FD DLL rather than standard calls. Bill Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... John, I can't find anything at that page that restricts the use of DLL's

Fw: COBOL Compiler options

2008-02-21 Thread Bill Klein
, otherwise I would try it and report back. Darren -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Klein Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: COBOL Compiler options Turns out

Fw: LE Dump

2008-02-28 Thread Bill Klein
I think (but am not certain) that what you want is the information at: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=431context=SSTLTFdc=DB520dc=D B560uid=swg21265671loc=en_UScs=UTF-8lang=enrss=ct431other In particular, specify //ABNLIGNR DD DUMMY you may also want to look at:

COBOL Revision (aka faster than a speedy turtle)

2008-02-28 Thread Bill Klein
in Ontario, CA, will be greatly appreciated. -- Bill Klein wmklein at ix.netcom.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Fw: Cobol Java Ldap and between

2008-03-01 Thread Bill Klein
I could be mistaken on this, but I don't think there is any requirement for a C/C++ connector for a non-OO COBOL program to INVOKE (not CALL) an OO COBOL program. I eally do NOT know this part of Enterprise COBOL, but you can check out:

Debug Tool know how...

2008-03-05 Thread Bill Klein
If you find cases where the manual says something will work (or you read it as saying that) and the product doesn't support it, then I would say that is DEFINITELY a place where you should create a support PMR. If you have questions about how to (and the manuals aren't clear), and it is for

Debug Tool know how...

2008-03-05 Thread Bill Klein
If it turns out that there is something that Debug Tool can't do - that you think it should, I just wanted to let all of you know that the LNGC project at SHARE is now accepting (processing) requirements against that product. If you are a SHARE member and would like to enhance Debug Tool (for

LE-compliant assembler program with 'instance-storage'.

2008-03-09 Thread Bill Klein
For any application (Assembler or otherwise) that needs to take separate logic paths depending upon whether it is or is not running under CICS (or some other issues), please do look at the CEE3INF callable service. See:

Fw: SE2D U1477 Abend

2008-03-12 Thread Bill Klein
What was the E-level message (at compile-time)? Given the other reply to the note, if it was a COBOL program with an error related to SEGMENTATION - that would certainly seem relevant. If so, which compiler are you using? Francois Guillez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Fw: IBM Debug Tool

2008-03-18 Thread Bill Klein
Current versions (even relatively recent versions) allow for a COBOL debug file to be a side file. There is even SOME support for debugging programs compiled with OPT. HOWEVER if you want to use debug tool as a source code debugger, then you will want to compile with NOOPT, which is certainly

C++ Workable Mainframe Debuggers

2008-04-11 Thread Bill Klein
David, This note makes it appear that what you are looking for is a C++ application debugger. I haven't read all of the notes in the thread, but making this clear in the subject may help getting more responsive replies. Therefore, I have added C++ to the subject. David Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

C++ Workable Mainframe Debuggers

2008-04-14 Thread Bill Klein
in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi Unforunatly after several years of tests and a number of PMR's etc. etc we think the IBM C++ debugger is unusable for a complex applications We still use a number of printfs to debug C++ Bill Klein wrote: David, This note makes

Fw: COBOL / VSAM question.

2008-04-14 Thread Bill Klein
There have been many good replies to this note in IBM-MAIN and I would certainly agree with those that suggest checking for 97 as well as 00 as a good file status value. In fact, you may want to check for 97 or ANY value starting with 0. (Certainly, you need to check for other 0x values in other

Fw: COBOL Copybook to DDS conversion

2008-04-21 Thread Bill Klein
I don't know the answer. I think you *might* get a better reply if you post this to comp.lang.cobol usenet newsgroup. (We have a few COBOL/400 people there) cowboy007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello all, this is one more newbie to AS400. I have been

Fw: Language Enviroment HLASM question.

2008-04-28 Thread Bill Klein
If you think that using any of the LE callable services might be useful (now or in the future) for the program, that would be another reason. McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Is there any reason that anybody can think of for making an ASSEMBLER program

Supported Documentation

2008-04-29 Thread Bill Klein
Having read the thread (so far), I have a few comments. (All of this is written assuming that what you want is semi-real-time updates to electronic versions of IBM documentation). 1) Even in the days of hard-copy TNL's, each TNL was reflected in a new dash-level. Do you REALLY want a new

Fw: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-12 Thread Bill Klein
This note was posted directly to the USENET newsgroup and hasn't had many replies. I am forwarding it to the list-server, to see if more people have input on it. (It is also in the comp.lang.cobol newsgroup). Graham Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello, Big

CICS/TS 2.3 and z/OS 1.7

2008-05-13 Thread Bill Klein
The exact requirements for ALL31(OFF) are at: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ceea3180/1.2.4.2 Imbriale, Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] om... The information I provided was from the current LE manuals. And I have confirmed this

CICS/TS 2.3 and z/OS 1.7

2008-05-15 Thread Bill Klein
I was hoping that no one was going to be able to find any copies of that paper still online. I am sorry that you were still able to find it at the site. I spent quite a bit of time last year trying to work with Hursley and getting that paper corrected (as well as updated). There are some

CICS/TS 2.3 and z/OS 1.7

2008-05-15 Thread Bill Klein
all previous parts of the thread snipped Earlier in this thread there was a discussion about whether or not one was safe ALWAYS using ALL31(ON) or not. I think part of the confusion has to do with the subject of this thread mentioning CICS. If you are talking about a CICS environment (and the

ANSI (was: PC printing of .txt files containing mainframe listings)

2008-06-03 Thread Bill Klein
I came in - in the middle of this discussion. Are you talking about the stuff at: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2d540/APPENDIX 1.3.2 I was amused that it doesn't' mention WHICH ANSI or ISO Standard they are defined in - but I always thought that the A in

Rational Developer for System z

2008-06-04 Thread Bill Klein
From other notes, it looks like the SCLM problem may NOT be a real problem, HOWEVER, I did want to remind any/all SHARE members who either have RDz or are evaluating it, that the LNGC project of SHARE is now accepting (and processing) SHARE requirements against RDz. Please, if you are a

Fw: COBOL abbreviated IF message IGYPS2048-S

2008-10-16 Thread Bill Klein
I agree that this is probably a compiler error. Or at least disagrees with the documentation. According to: http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/IGY3LR40/6.1.6.14 and http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/IGY3LR40/6.1.6.14.1 and

C03 abend when omiting CEE.SCEERUN from JCL

2008-10-17 Thread Bill Klein
I don't know if this will help or not, but can you tell us: A) is the (dynamically called subprogram in) Assembler is LE-conforming or not? B) Do you have any other COBOL (older) run-times in the steplib or the joblib of the program? C) Does anything in the C03 output tell you which dataset was

C03 abend when omitting CEE.SCEERUN from JCL

2008-10-20 Thread Bill Klein
When you say 1 VS COBOL program Do you mean VS COBOL II or OS/VS COBOL? If it is OS/VS COBOL, then this may WELL be part of the problem. However, for either VS COBOL II or OS/VS COBOL, was the program compiled with RES or NORES? (You can use COBANAL or Edge Portfolio to find this out). If

Cobol reference

2008-10-21 Thread Bill Klein
Howard, I don't know what release you want, but I tend to keep bunches of them. Most recent - Enterprise COBOL V4R1 http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/Shelves/igy3sh40 Last Version 3 URL http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/IGY3SH33 These are

C03 abend when omitting CEE.SCEERUN from JCL

2008-10-22 Thread Bill Klein
previous notes snipped With all the posts, I don't know if anyone has actually posted the references for the full discussion on this topic in existing Migration Guides. If you previously used the OS/VS COBOL run-time library, please read:

copybook usage

2008-10-27 Thread Bill Klein
You don't say what programming language (much less what release/version of a compiler) you are using. If you are talking about COBOL, it is entirely possible to put as much or as little as you might want - from either the Data Division *OR* the Procedure Division. If fact, if it is distinct set

DFSORT PARSE question

2008-10-28 Thread Bill Klein
John, I don't have a solution for you (Other than, of course, how easy this would be to do in COBOL G If you need a SORT and a report, COBOL internal SORT with Report Writer would do this for you easily), but ... Are you certain you don't have any John Smith, Jr or Mary Brown, III

Efficient conversion of GMT to/from local time from COBOL?

2008-10-30 Thread Bill Klein
There have been lots of replies referencing the LE callable date routines. Depending upon what type of date you are looking for, these may well be your best answer. HOWEVER, If all you want to do is know what the offset is from GMT of where your application is running, then you can easily just

Access STIMER(M) from COBOL program?

2008-11-12 Thread Bill Klein
If you are pre-1.9 then look on line for posts that reference ILBOWAT0 It does, require AMODE(24) but you can call an interface module to switch from a main AMODE(31) program to it. Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. .. NB: This function (and

COBOL compiler versions

2008-11-12 Thread Bill Klein
A couple of MINOR comments 1) The latest version/release of Enterprise COBOL is V4R1. Personally, I can't think of any reason to go to V3R4 or lower. 2) Someone else has already pointed to the Migration Guide. I would certainly review it for information on upgrading from an earlier version to

z/OS V1R10 COBOL

2008-11-18 Thread Bill Klein
previous info snipped One thing that MIGHT be causing problems/issues for some sites, is the fact that Enterprise COBOL V4 does not have a full function version - as Enterprise COBOL V3 did. With V3, the full function version included Debug Tool (as did the PL/I product) With V4 of Enterprise

Fw: Cobol and variable record length RRDS files

2008-12-10 Thread Bill Klein
Use of the RECORD VARYING SIZE in the FD phrase is valid for ALL organizations of files and does return the record length during a READ. ??? ?? ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].. . Hi One of our users is writing a program that reads a variable record

COBOL question: Why can't we use RECORD CONTAINS 0 CHARACTERS for RECFM=V files?

2008-12-17 Thread Bill Klein
Hopefully, you mean RECORD VARYING IN SIZE from 0 to 32767 depending on var-name I do NOT think you can use RECORD CONTAINS with the DEPENDING onphrase. John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote in message news:listserv%20081217160815.1...@bama.ua.edu... I've always used: RECORD CONTAINS 0

COBOL question: Why can't we use RECORD CONTAINS 0 CHARACTERS for RECFM=V files?

2008-12-17 Thread Bill Klein
I am not positive of this, but I think you DO need the JCL override. If the hard coded maximum LRECL in the FD does NOT match the maximum for the physical file and you don't have the JCL override, I believe you will get a file status of 39 when you OPEN the file indicating a physical file

FW: Syncsort Oddity

2008-12-31 Thread Bill Klein
This was supposed to go to the IBM-MAIN, not assembler list. Sorry about that. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:assembler-l...@listserv.uga.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Klein Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:33 AM To: assembler-l...@listserv.uga.edu Subject

Fw: IBM Debug Tool in pure batch

2008-12-31 Thread Bill Klein
According to: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/eqa9ug00/5.1.4 It looks like you are doing this correctly. Assuming you are current on maintenance, I would report this to the IBM support center (and reference the documentation above). Michael Bradley mjm...@yahoo.com

Syncsort Oddity

2009-01-01 Thread Bill Klein
Do you know how the original file was created? I would be interested if it was created by a COBOL program compiled with NOAWO. If so, you may want to make AWO an shop default (and/or non-modifiable COBOL compiler option) ??? ?? ??? gad...@malam.com wrote in message

IBM Debug Tool in pure batch

2009-01-01 Thread Bill Klein
I haven't seen the actual problem code - but if it follows (normal) COBOL rules, there would be a difference between: LIST ALL (on two lines with no hyphen) versus LI -ST all (on two lines with a hyphen in column 7 of the continuation line). One uses the hyphen to continue

SHARE Session 8194: z390 and zcobol Portable Mainframe COBOL Compiler written in structured macro assembler

2009-01-01 Thread Bill Klein
The last that I heard (which was quite a while ago) if you tried using that product on z/OS, it could work with line sequential (HFS) files but *NOT* with normal QSAM files (and I am not even certain about VSAM KSDS or RRDS files). Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote in message

COBOL and Floating Point (was: SHARE Session 8194: z390 and zcobol Portable Mainframe COBOL Compiler written in structured macro assembler

2009-01-07 Thread Bill Klein
Clark, Easy answer, there have been no recent changes to IBM's responses on floating point (or bit) support. Harder answer is that you keep getting confused about different terms and requirements. In the '02 Standard there are 3 new USAGEs FLOAT-SHORT FLOAT-LONG FLOAT-EXTENDED IBM (or

Fw: COBOL and Floating Point (was: SHARE Session 8194: z390 and zcobol Portable Mainframe COBOL Compiler written in structured macro assembler

2009-01-09 Thread Bill Klein
Clark, When you bring up Java, this confuses me. Currently IBM does all the required conversion for floating point items shared between COBOL and Java in a z/OS environment. Do you have real-world evidence that this does isn't working. *** As far as SHARE requirements go, Requirement

AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ...

2009-01-09 Thread Bill Klein
Denis Gäbler denisgaeb...@netscape.net wrote in message news:8cb40acc0589804-abc-...@webmail-dx19.sysops.aol.com... For video on demand databases are too slow. You would use a streaming server, for which I don't know any available for System z OS except VM Stairs. In addition, a streaming

AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ...

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Klein
I understand your desire for 64-bit COBOL. I would suggest that if you WANT 64-bit COBOL, that you have your company submit a marketing requirement and reference SHARE requirement: SSLNGC0413607 Support 64 bit and web-oriented development in COBOL Unless you want a 64-bit COBOL that can't

Fw: Some kind of hint!!!

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Klein
In comp.lang.cobol when someone first comes into the world of migrating (converting) COBOL created files, we usually point them to Michael Mattias EXCELLENT web page at: http://www.talsystems.com/tsihome_html/downloads/C2IEEE.htm The bottom-line (as others in the thread have hinted at) is that

Utility for LE Options?

2009-01-19 Thread Bill Klein
OOPS, my idea won't work. It is the CEEROPT module itself that you are trying to find what options are set. I do not know of a dis-assembler for a CEEROPT load module. -Original Message- From: Bill Klein [mailto:wmkl...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 6:44 PM

Utility for LE Options?

2009-01-19 Thread Bill Klein
Final thought (replying to myself, replying to myself G) Code a small program that CALLs CEE3DMP, that program's output will show you the run-time options in effect. -Original Message- From: Bill Klein [mailto:wmkl...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 6:53 PM To: IBM

Fw: Utility for LE Options?

2009-01-19 Thread Bill Klein
I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but at LE 1.9, you can A) create a CEEROPT stand-alone module with RPTOPTS(ON) (You may or may not want to modify MSGFILE as well) See: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ceea2180/1.9.2 B) place the resuliting load

64-bit COBOL

2009-01-22 Thread Bill Klein
(New but follow-on thread), There are now and have been ever since the question was first raised at least three different issues (IMHO). 1) The one that Clark and others have TRIED to communicate to IBM, but which seems hard to convey - or at least difficult to hear that IBM understands is the

AMODE(64) COBOL - SHARE requirement

2009-01-23 Thread Bill Klein
Given the recent discussions in IBM-MAIN and given the fact that the 2004 LNGC requirement asked for multiple things (including 64-bit COBOL), I have created a new SHARE LNGC requirement: SSLNGC09001 AMODE(64) COBOL that works with AMODE(31) COBOL If you are a current LNGC project

COBOL question - NOTE

2009-02-03 Thread Bill Klein
FYI, The NOTE statement actually was impacted by the LANGLVL compiler option. Therefore, if you are converting OS/VS COBOL (or DOS/VS COBOL) code to a currently supported compiler, you probably want to look this up - to make certain that you comment the correct lines. John P Kalinich

Fw: COBOL Functions

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Klein
Although the '02 ANSI/ISO Standard does allow for user-defined functions, these are NOT supported by current releases of IBM's Enterprise COBOL. (Some vendors of Windows and Unix COBOL compilers do already support it). On the other hand, What do you mean by a function? If you want to

Fw: COBOL Group moves

2007-08-03 Thread Bill Klein
Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... -Original Message- snip Tables are another reason to use INITIALIZE, I don't believe VALUE on table elements works. snip One can use a VALUE clause on an element of a table (and have since the '85

Re: COBOL subscript range checking

2007-08-10 Thread Bill Klein
and reference modification, compile with NOSSRANGE (but document this) In general, these rules apply to both batch and online applications. However, having the ned for NOSSRANGE for online may occur more often than for batch (depending upon system design). -- Bill Klein wmklein at ix.netcom.com

Fw: 31 bit addressing issue

2007-08-13 Thread Bill Klein
Lots of issues with all of this and as you don't tell us whether the CALLs are static or dynamic, it is hard to tell which of the problems you might be running into. Some things to think about: 1) Having an OS/VS COBOL program call an LE-COBOL program is the PRIME time for discovering that some

Cobol ACCEPT-DATE

2007-08-22 Thread Bill Klein
It returns the local date/time - but what that means depends on how your system is set up. Perryman, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] i.com... Hi folks Is ACCEPT-DATE supposed to return GMT time, or local time? We have some issues with a program which was

Fw: Cobol ACCEPT-DATE

2007-08-22 Thread Bill Klein
Unless you have modified IBM's run-time library, the COBOL ACCEPT from DATE and ACCEPT from CONSOLE are mutually exclusive (and always have been). DATE is a reserved word in COBOL so you can't have ACCEPT DATE FROM CONSOLE You *could* have an ACCEPT WS-DATE from Console

SHARE requirement of possible interest to this group

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Klein
If you are a SHARE member and are not currently registered to participate in the LNGC requirement process, I would like to suggest that the following requirement MIGHT be of sufficient interest to you - so that you (or someone in your installation) will register and participate in LNGC processing.

Fw: How would you read a report?

2007-09-10 Thread Bill Klein
I have seen a couple of replies and using REXX or SAS would certainly be a possibility. (I know one shop that used SPITBOL for this type of thing) The only tricky things about doing it in COBOL are: 1) with LRECL 133, I assume that the file is REALLY FBA - or FBM - not FB. If so, then make

Fw: SINGLE RECORD KEY and FD for multiple VSAM files (of same kind)

2007-09-23 Thread Bill Klein
FYI (and for the record) The answer of using the FD-name to qualify has already been supplied in comp.lang.cobol. dividby0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, I'm writing a COBOL program which accepts 5 KSDS files and extract data into a single file. All the

Fw: COBOL called subroutines

2007-09-25 Thread Bill Klein
John (and IBM-MAIN) I didn't jump in to this thread as I never quite figured out exactly what you wanted. (Your trap the name didn't tell me how or where you wanted to do this). FYI, The traditional way for a COBOL application program to let a common subroutine know where it is being called

CICS TS V2.3 - End-of-Marketing and End-of-Service dates

2007-10-09 Thread Bill Klein
, then you should check for a corresponding announcement letter in your area. -- Bill Klein wmklein at ix.netcom.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Cobol calling EZASOKET gets RC 2912

2007-10-09 Thread Bill Klein
If the CALL actually seems to be working and EZASOKET doesn't document such a CC, then it sounds to me as if this is the old not clearing register 15 problem documented at: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/igy3pg32/4.2.4.1 where it says, You might need to think

Fw: COBOL move statement issue

2007-10-15 Thread Bill Klein
Just so this is clear, IBM has never (does not now and never will) guarantee that an ABEND will occur in a COBOL program when bad data is in a numeric field (of any usage) and any operation is performed. The COBOL Standard dictates that such situations are UNPREDICTABLE which means that it may

Fw: COBOL move statement issue

2007-10-16 Thread Bill Klein
Easy answer, NO there is no way to handle bad data as input - without either changing the COBOL code or introducing some sort of validation' routine between the sending web application and the COBOL program. FYI, Adding an IF NUMERIC test in the COBOL program (at one place - where the data

Re: BLKSIZE=0

2007-11-05 Thread Bill Klein
in such a feature can/should submit a REQUEST via their IBM marketting support referencing this SHARE requirement. -- Bill Klein wmklein at ix.netcom.com Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:05 PM, Clark Morris wrote: On 30 Oct 2007 09:18

Fw: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-08 Thread Bill Klein
I assume (but could be mistaken) that you are trying to replace a part of a string rather than a COBOL text word. Besides the fact that there are work-arounds for doing partial word replacement, you might be interested that the current ('02) standard DOES allow for replacing a leading or trailing

COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-08 Thread Bill Klein
- From: Bill Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Fw: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING... I assume (but could be mistaken) that you are trying to replace a part of a string rather than a COBOL text word. Besides

Fw: zAAP question

2007-11-10 Thread Bill Klein
Anyone that does not want Tom to shoot them G and does want to follow IBM's PUBLIC statements on both zAAP, zIIP, XML, etc support with COBOL may want to follow the SHARE requirements: SSLNGC07004 zAAP and zIIP eligible XML support in COBOL currently waiting for an IBM response. If

Fw: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...

2007-11-12 Thread Bill Klein
, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... -Original Message- From: Bill Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING... The documented (and functional

Expanding Copybook inside Copybook

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Klein
FYI, There are ways that one can sort-of get around this (well-documented) restriction by using the REPLACE statement rather than the REPLACING phrase of the COPY statement, but these can complicated and error-prone. Phillips, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fw: LE Options

2007-04-16 Thread Bill Klein
I have NOT tried this myself, but if you are looking for a utility to do what you want, try running a job with the following step: //LISTOPT EXEC PGM=EDCALIAS,PARM='ROPTOPTS(ON)/' From what I have heard you may (or may not) get other stuff and possibly some ODD messages, but you should (from

Fw: IS IBM COBOL dead or just not being upgraded for z9? Re: z9 Hardware update

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Klein
Discussions are already ongoing as to whether we need to/should submit a LNGC project SHARE requirement on either Decimal Floating point or zAPP/zIIP eligible XML support for COBOL. I'll keep this list informed when/if such requirements are ready for discussion P.S. My *personal* hope is that

jcl.

2007-05-08 Thread Bill Klein
If (when) you are using LE V1.8, you can use the LE callable service CEEENV See: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ceea3170/2.2.5.31 The advantage of using CEEENV over putenv (not PUTENV) is that the restrictions listed at:

Simple (???) VSAM ESDS question

2007-06-19 Thread Bill Klein
(I sent this to the Assembler list, but meant to ask IBM-MAIN - Sorry if some see it twice) A question came up in the COBOL newsgroup about records (not blocks, i.e. LBI) 32K. I know that QSAM doesn't support this. The current Enterprise COBOL LRM at:

What is the main publication site (was: PL/I will rule the world . . . not

2007-07-04 Thread Bill Klein
John P Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I find that it is better to always refer to the main publications site. That way, I don't miss anything. John P Baker Software Engineer HFD Technologies -Original Message- snip Ahhh. You're right. I went

Fw: Calling a Web Service from COBOL

2007-07-06 Thread Bill Klein
See long ongoing thread with same subject in comp.lang.cobol morde1ac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi All. My company is currently running IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V3.4. We are also running SAP. I would like to create a web service in SAP, then call

IBM and COBOL SEARCH ALL

2006-12-11 Thread Bill Klein
) the information at: http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/IGY3MG32/5.4 NOTE WELL: Changes/Maintenance to *EITHER* LE or COBOL may result in your needing to know about this. -- Bill Klein wmklein at ix.netcom.com

Fw: COBOL compiler options JCL PARM.

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Klein
There have been previous requests for COBOL to have the same type of DD that PL/I has had for years (and that LE has recently introduced) to avoid this. However, there certainly is none right now. Steve has given a couple of answers, and using a CBL (Process) card (that you can concatenate with

Fw: Fw: COBOL compiler options JCL PARM.

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Klein
environment variable? At compile-time? (LE *does* let you use a DD for setting run-time options - if you are on z/OS 1.8) Don Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Bill Klein wrote: If the parm string sets environment variables, you can move those

COBOL compiler options JCL PARM.

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Klein
To the best of my knowledge, no current or (relatively recently past, i.e. OS/VS COBOL or later) compiler has created object code that truncates passed parameters to called subprograms. It *IS* true that the compiler itself may (as documented) only pay attention to the first 100 bytes of passed

COBOL compiler options JCL PARM.

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Klein
Jan MOEYERSONS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I actually look after the change management software and am trying to snip As an ex-change management person, I have to recommend you do not do that and indeed that you prohibit your programmers from using the CBL

Fw: COBOL TRUNC(BIN) compiler performance improvements

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Klein
Check out the what's new section of the Programming Guides. There actually have been several changes (improvements) along the way. HOWEVER, even with the latest compiler TRUNC(BIN) should be you option of LAST resort. Remember that you can use COMP-5 with TRUNC(OPT) to insure that specific

IBM and official names (was: S80A loading CEEMENU3

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Klein
Like USS the letters LE are now not supposed to be used in official IBM documents. I know that the dox people have accepted RCF's on it whenever I still find it (where Language Environment is supposed to be used. Like USS, once can find LE in macros and other software (and probably Red Books)

cobol versions

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Klein
Depends on what run-time is available. If LE (Language Environment) is available at run-time (probably via the linklist - but possibly in a steplib), then you can run either VS COBOL II or Enterprise COBOL compiled programs. If you only the VS COBOL II run-time available, then NO you cannot

zNALC in an LPAR and z/VSE V4 Sub-Capacity Pricing

2007-01-09 Thread Bill Klein
Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... McKown, John wrote: snip I'm not sure if this is a good thing, but it will presumably eliminate the point of things like the COBOL compiler to JVM bytecodes that at least a couple of vendors provide(d), other than as

Fw: setting LE runtime options programatically.

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Klein
There have been lots of answers, but as you have explicitly said that you are NOT on z/OS 1.8, let me give you a summary of my understanding: 1) PL/I has plixopt (as I recall and COBOL has a share requirement, but currently there is NO way to set LE run-time options at the time of a COBOL

[NOT OT] Collection Classes

2007-02-02 Thread Bill Klein
) ANSI/ISO COBOL process. However, as this *IS* an ongoing process, I still believe that getting real world user input is a good thing - whether it actually has any impact is simply another matter G. -- Bill Klein wmklein at ix.netcom.com

COBOL in sysplex

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Klein
Besides program directories and installation stuff, have you looked at both the COBOL and the LE Migration Guides/ In general, I would recommend upgrading the operating system (with LE) first and get it stable in all environments (LPARs, whatever). After that is stable (and all your old COBOL

Alas, poor ILBOWAT0, I knew you well G

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Klein
CEE5DLY functionality to LE for z/OS and for z/VM (even if that requirement was showing RECOGNIZED and not ACCEPTED) -- Bill Klein wmklein at ix.netcom.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

CEE3203S (code=0C4) invoking Java from COBOL in batch

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Klein
Have you contacted IBM support? This certainly sounds like the way to go. Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... We have successfully run the sample from the COBOL manual and are now trying our own COBOL to Java application but are getting an abend as follows

COBOL Integrated Coprocessors

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Klein
There were bunches of problems with the COBOL2 translator option interacting with the DBCS compiler option. I can't (quickly) find a summary of what APARs fixed which problems. You might want to check out PKPK26401 and PK26933: If you are a SHARE member, you may want to check out

Fw: Finding where a module is being loaded from

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Klein
If this feature is important to your site, then you should contact your marketing branch and ask that a REQUEST be submitted - referencing existing SHARE requirement: SSLNGC0313587 - LE Callable Service to get (various) Program Names (current IBM response RECOGNIZED) Oscar Flores [EMAIL

COBOL Called routines Working Storage

2007-02-22 Thread Bill Klein
Basically, I agree with Steve (Yes, is the default with IS INITIAL and CANCEL being the major exceptions). However, I do NOT think that RENT will have any impact; nor will whether or not it is under CICS. If the subprogram is called dynamically, then Working-Storage (not Local-Storage) should be

Re: CEE3203S (code=0C4) invoking Java from COBOL in batch

2007-02-23 Thread Bill Klein
and/or Debug Tool for better mixed COBOL and Java support Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On 2/21/07, Bill Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you contacted IBM support? This certainly sounds like the way to go

SHARE requirements of POSSIBLE interest

2007-03-07 Thread Bill Klein
to: IBM-MAIN and Assembler List-Servers I just thought that I would post this to IBM-MAIN and ASSEMBLER-LIST indicating that there are currently 4 LNGC requirements out for voting (that will close next week). If you are already on the LNGC requirements distribution list, then you have heard

General question on licensing obsolete IBM products

2007-03-07 Thread Bill Klein
I don't know what IBM would do with a PRPQ type request for a NEW order for the OS/VS COBOL compiler, but I don't think it would receive a warm welcome. (Do you remember how to install a product with SMP4? OS/VS COBOL was never delivered with SMP/E support) As far as a shop getting a new

General question on licensing obsolete IBM products

2007-03-07 Thread Bill Klein
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Of Bill Klein Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: General question on licensing obsolete IBM products I don't know what IBM would do with a PRPQ type request for a NEW

Fw: General question on licensing obsolete IBM products

2007-03-08 Thread Bill Klein
they work, and no budget for conversion, and typical corporate tolerance for risk (i.e., near zero) it is a HUGE obstacle, and there is no reasoning it away, I fear. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Of Bill Klein Sent: Wednesday

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