The IBM C compiler certainly documents their compiler diagnostic messages. http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.cbcdg01/cbcdg0112.htm
In article <2836163560113018.wa.bill.woodgergmail....@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote: > Ed, > You're either pulling my leg, or accidentally conflating two things, I think. > "As the result of a SHARE requirement, we were able to > apply resources to getting the COBOL Performance > Tuning Paper updated for COBOL V4R2 > ? The last time it was updated was for COBOL V3R1, 2001" > That's from a Tom Ross presentation at SHARE in Anaheim in 2011. > With V5.1 the Performance Tuning document appeared 14 months after the > product. > With V6.1 the Performance Tuning document appeared at GA. > I don't think anyone will ever seriously ask for the documentation of the > COBOL compiler messages. OK, individuals will, even individual organisations, > but the wider response will be "you want IBM to spend hundreds of thousands > of dollars on something which does no more than restate the text of the > messages"? > It's like the people who "comment" lines like the following in a COBOL > program: > MOVE some-descriptive-data-name TO some-other-descriptive-data-name > COBOL runtime messages are documented, in the Language Environment Runtime > Messages, and they always have been, in various places. > As far as I'm aware, there has never been any documentation of the compiler > diagnostic messages for any IBM Mainframe compiler, going back to Full > American Naitonal Standard COBOL at least. > If there are individual messages that someone thinks are unclear (and it > should actually be so, to have any point in the process), then let IBM know > and they will look into it. I reported one, and my source says Tom Ross > himself fixed it (a V4 message referred to a V3 document). > Now, if anyone does want to commission the documentation of the Enterprise > COBOL diagnostic messages, I'm available. > On Sunday, 20 March 2016 00:21:07 UTC, Ed Gould wrote: > > It figures. They probably dropped it (again) figuring no one would > > notice. > > Time for a SHARE req. Anyone? > > > > Ed -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive sas...@sas.com (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
