If I am recalling correctly (I may not be), I believe SYSMDECK has to be assigned to an actual dataset because it is used for input and not just output.
________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2025 10:05 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Would you consider this a compiler bug? On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:44:06 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > ... >After much tinkering, I found that it didn't like >//SYSMDECK DD SYSOUT=* > >Changing that to >//SYSMDECK DD UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(1,1)) >made it happy. > What else did you try? "SYSOUT=*" refers to MSGCLASS, which may not be meaningful within compilation. "SYSOUT=A"? What would DYNALLOC or BPXWDYN accept? >Seems like I shouldn't be able to cause an internal compiler error that >trivially, no? Alas, we don't have a "real" IBM customer number, so I can't >report this normally. Just wondered if I was missing something obvious about >this. > ... When I was enhancing a FOSS Pascal compiler, any abnormal termination of the compiler automatically was reportable. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
