I think I am after #1. Cobol program A dynamically calls Cobol program B. Now I need a way for Cobol Program B to find out it was called by Cobol program A. I was going to use CEETBCK to do this.
Brad Wissink Information Technology Services Iowa State University 515-294-3088 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CEETBCK and LE conforming assembler On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Wissink, Brad [ITSYS] <bjwi...@iastate.edu > wrote: > The order would be that the originating Cobol program would call another > Cobol program. The called Cobol program wants to know who called it because > it can be called from many different programs. The called Cobol program > would then call my assembler program which would traverse back though the > called chain using CEETBCK and report back who called it. > Brad can you provide some additional information regarding what is meant by 'who called it'. Here are some specific questions. 1) the immediate predecessor (caller)? 2) the entire calling chain? 3) the name of the calling program according signature bytes put in the object code by the compiler? 4) In the case of caller that was dynamically loaded, the name of the program located in the CDE control blocks? 5) If running in a multithreaded situation, do you need to get back past the current TCB? Cheers, Sam > Brad Wissink > Information Technology Services > Iowa State University > 515-294-3088 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Steve Comstock > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 11:50 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: CEETBCK and LE conforming assembler > > On 1/28/2011 10:33 AM, Brad Wissink wrote: > > I have a requirement to be able to find the caller of a called program. > The > > caller and called program are both COBOL running in batch. I found from > the > > list that I should try CEETBCK. So I am trying to write an assembler > > routine to do this. Since I a novice at assembler I was wondering if > anyone > > had a sample they would be willing to share showing me how to use > CEETBCK. > > I'm unclear on where your Assembler program would stand in > the call heirarchy. It sounds like your Assembler program > is supposed to be sort of an observer. But how is it > invoked? It can't sit between the caller and the callee, > because then it becomes the callee. > > I wouldn't be too exicited about CEETBCK, which is documented > in the LE Vendor's Interfaces guide as a compiler writers > interface. > > Or is this program supposed to gather this information later > from, say, SMF or log records? > > Some more detail of what you're trying to accomplish would > certainly help. > > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-393-8716 > http://www.trainersfriend.com > > * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! > + Training your people is an excellent investment > > * Try our new tool for calculating your Return On Investment > for training dollars at > http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
