Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-30 Thread Frank Swarbrick
EDU> on behalf of Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 5:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol) > On Mar 28, 2017, at 3:47 PM, Bill Woodger <bill.wood...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Without any

Re: AW: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-29 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:31:11 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > >>There is a new listing when a program is processed by ABO, and this listing >>is used by IBM Fault Analyzer, but it is not used by LE. For CEEDUMP, you >>would manually map the offset to the line number. > >So what you're saying is

Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-29 Thread Bill Woodger
There was no suggestion attempted (for anything) just an explanation that if you have used options which augment the LE abend output (which should also include CEEDUMP) then ABO will leave those alone. This was in reference to Peter's question posted immediately prior: "So what [is being

Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-28 Thread Edward Gould
> On Mar 28, 2017, at 3:47 PM, Bill Woodger wrote: > > Without any TEST option on the compile, LE gives you nothing but the offset > of the failing instruction, then you find it in the compile listing. ABO gets > you a new listing of the new code, a new place to consult

Re: AW: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-28 Thread Bill Woodger
Without any TEST option on the compile, LE gives you nothing but the offset of the failing instruction, then you find it in the compile listing. ABO gets you a new listing of the new code, a new place to consult for the offset. If you compile with TEST options, the code generated for those

AW: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-28 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>There is a new listing when a program is processed by ABO, and this listing is used by IBM Fault Analyzer, but it is not used by LE. For CEEDUMP, you would manually map the offset to the line number. So what you're saying is that an optional chargeable product knows how to handle problems

How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-28 Thread Tom Ross
>To help search engines: ABO = Automatic Binary Optimizer >>We haven't set off down the yellow-brick ABO road, so it's hard to gauge h= >>ow much angst we'll actually have to overcome. I'm pretty sure it won't be = >>trivial. >I haven't seen ABO in action yet. Is there a listing that relates

Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-27 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>As far as finding the source statement, yes this is possible with ABO. > >We run IBM's Fault Analyzer and it has PTFs that make it compatible with ABO >optimized code. So, this tool can go through the updated 'listing' file >produced as part of the ABO output to help get back to the original

AW: Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-27 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>I think a lot of it will depend on 'how good is your COBOL?'. Yeah define >good. Anyway using 'IBM ABO software' did find an .html Knowledge Center >link. > >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSERQD_1.2.0/c >om.ibm.opt.doc/ug/troubleshooting.html That basically answers my

Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-27 Thread Bill Woodger
The output listing from the ABO process is designed to mesh with the output from the original compile. If it doesn't, or there are difficulties, problems, suggestions for improvement, let IBM know. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-27 Thread DiBianca, Robert
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 9:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol) So ABO optimizes LOAD modules. Optimized applications created with Automatic Binary

Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
Hunkeler > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 10:36 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol) > > To help search engines: ABO = Automatic Binary Optimizer > > >We haven't set off down the yellow-brick ABO road, so it's har

Re: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-27 Thread Edward Finnell
I think a lot of it will depend on 'how good is your COBOL?'. Yeah define good. Anyway using 'IBM ABO software' did find an .html Knowledge Center link. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSERQD_1.2.0/c om.ibm.opt.doc/ug/troubleshooting.html In a message dated 3/27/2017 12:36:14

How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
To help search engines: ABO = Automatic Binary Optimizer >We haven't set off down the yellow-brick ABO road, so it's hard to gauge how >much angst we'll actually have to overcome. I'm pretty sure it won't be >trivial. I haven't seen ABO in action yet. Is there a listing that relates the