Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-21 Thread Frank Yaeger
Andy Robertson wrote on 09/20/2009 05:05:39 AM: Thanks, Frank, Martin; the problem was my cut-and-pasting from PDF. In fact the standard version of COBDFSYM works well with 410. Apologies for timewasting. Good to hear. Thanks for letting us know. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-20 Thread Andy Robertson
Thanks, Frank, Martin; the problem was my cut-and-pasting from PDF. In fact the standard version of COBDFSYM works well with 410. Apologies for timewasting. Andy Robertson ** This email is confidential and may contain

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-19 Thread Martin Packer
I'm wondering if COBDFSYM shouldn't become open source or similar. Given the (apparent) loose ownership of the code. But I'm just wondering, not proposing. The advantage would be that interested parties could work on it. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-19 Thread Greg Shirey
It is a REXX exec and contains the following comment line: *** Freeware courtesy of SEB IT Partner and IBM *** So, if you're interested, work away! Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Martin Packer Sent: Saturday,

COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-18 Thread Andy Robertson
We are trying to use COBDFSYM to convert COBOL copybooks to SYMPARMS input for ICETOOL COBDFSYM is in the dfsort tricks pdf at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T794 The copybook is compiled and the output analysed by COBDFSYM to create SYMPARMS input With COBOL 410 input

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-18 Thread Greg Shirey
Andy, We have COBOL 4.1 here and have used the same COBDFSYM REXX since December 2005, and it works for us. There is a restriction that the copybook member must have an 01 level to work properly, but I don't recall what error that causes. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-18 Thread Frank Yaeger
Andy Robertson wrote on 09/18/2009 08:50:56 AM: We are trying to use COBDFSYM to convert COBOL copybooks to SYMNAMES input for ICETOOL COBDFSYM is in the dfsort tricks pdf at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=114uid=isg3T794 The copybook is compiled and the output analysed by

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-18 Thread Martin Packer
An interesting discussion about COBDFSYM, particularly as I plug it in the Batch Modernization Redbook that's currently in review. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter ID: MartinPacker

COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-18 Thread Bill Klein
USER BEWARE I have NOT tried it, but the thing that I expect WILL impact COBDFSYM is the fact that Enterprise COBOL V4R2 (not V4R1) *DOES* allow for underscores in user-defined words - even as the last character of the user-defined word. Consider (in particular) a (valid in Enterprise COBOL

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-18 Thread Frank Yaeger
Andy Robertson wrote on 09/18/2009 03:30:01 PM: Could you maybe send me a copy offlist (as a .txt file will do?) I suspect I've copied the exec from the pdf wrong somehow . . . though I can not see how. You can download cobdfsym.txt from the DFSORT FTP site at:

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-18 Thread Andy Robertson
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:32:12 -0500, Greg Shirey wgshi...@benekeith.com wrote: Andy, We have COBOL 4.1 here and have used the same COBDFSYM REXX since December 2005, and it works for us. There is a restriction that the copybook member must have an 01 level to work properly, but I don't recall