On 8/3/2012 10:03 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
Hmmm. Not seeing errors from EC at the customer. I wonder if that REMARKS line is somehow significant. (And Yes, I can test that and no I have not yet.)I will repost here the preceding lines, and also the lines I posted before as Outlook+Listserve garbled it a bit. 1 2 3 6 7 1234567890123456789012345678901...0123456789012 00017 AUTHOR. JOHN DOE. 00018 DATE-WRITTEN. JULY 1989. 00019 DATE-COMPILED. 00020 *REMARKS. 00021 '******************* ************' 00022 '* VARIOUS COMMENT-LIKE TEXT *' 00023 '* VARIOUS COMMENT-LIKE TEXT *' Charles
Since REMARKS is preceded by an asterisk in col. 7, it is just a comment. The lines following are not set up as comments, so they are not valid. In earlier compilers (quite a few years ago), REMARKS was a valid COBOL paragraph. When moving to COBOL II or later, many companies just placed asterisks before the existing content in order to leave the comments in but make them conform. Are you sure this code was accepted by the 4.1 compiler?
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 8:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is this valid COBOL syntax? A fast test with Enterprise COBOL 3.4.1 got an error message: 1PP 5655-G53 IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 3.4.1 ABEND0C7 Date 08/03/2012 Time 10:48:07 Page 5 LineID PL SL ----+-*A-1-B--+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7-|--+- ---8 Map and Cross Reference 0 000056 ' IS THIS A COMMENT? ' ==000056==> IGYDS1089-S "' IS THIS A COMMENT? '" was invalid. Scanning was resumed at the next area "A" item, level-number, or the start of the next clause. And my "gut feeling" is that such a construct is indeed invalid. What are a few of the lines above these lines?
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