Thanks. It's reassuring that I'm no stupider than usual. I don't have PL/I, but from looking at the manual, it seems to suffer from the same problem. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ibm3pg80/1.4.1.4
And FORTRAN doesn't even seem to support any z/OS UNIX usage at all. There is nothing in the books. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 5:21 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Anybody use the "cob2" command on a UNIX shell > to compile COBOL? > > On 4/16/2012 3:26 PM, McKown, John wrote: > > If so, have you figured out how to specify a PDS as an "include" or > > "copybook"source? The documentation for this command > basically stinks. > > > There is an -I switch. But it apparently only accepts UNIX > path specifications. > > The ld command (binder) accepts a PDS name via -L > "//pds.name". The as command > > (HLASM) and C compilers accept a -I "//pds.name". I may end > up writing my own > > version of the "cob2" command, if I really decide that I > want to compile COBOL > > from the UNIX shell. I'll likely model it after the as command. > > Yes. I discuss this command in our course "Developing Applications for > z/OS UNIX". But you're right, the doc is very poor. The > assumption seems > to be that copy books must be in HFS directories and my experiments > produce error messages that would support that. > > In a way, that's too bad. OTOH, I, too, was assuming that copy books > would reside in HFS directories so I had never tried to access copy > books as members of a PDS before. > > You would think that if you used the classic clue that a library was > a PDS/E, the compiler could figure it out. Maybe: > > export SYSLIB="//'SCOMSTO.U520.LIBRARY'" > > which I tried, and the message from the compile comes back: > > LineID Message code Library phase message text > 24 IGYLI0049-S The "COPY" library > "SCOMSTO.U520.LIBRARY/APODEFS" was not > found. Skipped to the period > terminating the "COPY" > statement. > > so it was pretty clearly expecting (nay: requiring) a z/OS UNIX > file, not a PDS. > > I'm copying this over to ibm-main, too, as Tom Ross occasionally > follows that group so maybe he will chime in with some info. > > > > > John McKown > > Systems Engineer IV > > IT > > > > Administrative Services Group > > > > HealthMarkets(r) > > > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > > (817) 255-3225 phone * > > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain > confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the > intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail > and destroy all copies of the original message. > HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten > and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, > Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West > National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA > Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For MVS-OE subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO MVS-OE > > > > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-355-2752 > 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 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: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
