I would think what you described might well work. I don't see any inherent flaws in the process.
RLD "cards" are documented and not at all impossible to decode. You could post the offending RLD here (in hex) and I'm sure folks would love to demonstrate their skills. You could also try a disassembler. (CBT tape has one, right?) Disassembled object code is a real piece of cowstuff but you could re-assemble it and try that approach. What's the possibility that you garbled things in the editor, or somewhere else along the way? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Roberto Halais Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 4:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS Listers: We are doing a VSE to z/OS conversion and had to do the following since we have no source. We punched out a CIL phase from a VSE system. We put the phase in a z/os pds member (lrecl 80) and it looked like this: Phase modname ESD TXT RLD END /* We edited the phase so that it looked like this: ESD TXT RLD END We then tried to linkedit the phase with IEWL and got the following messages: z/OS V1 R13 BINDER 15:51:52 FRIDAY AUGUST 9, 2013 BATCH EMULATOR JOB(LINKEDT2) STEP(LKED ) PGM= IEWL IEW2278I B352 INVOCATION PARAMETERS - XREF,LIST IEW2359E 240B SECTION FA010 CONTAINS AN RLD WITH AN INVALID ADCON LOCATION. CLASS = B_TEXT, ELEMENT OFFSET = FFAFFF88 IEW2307E 1113 CURRENT INPUT MODULE NOT INCLUDED BECAUSE OF INVALID DATA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN