Possibly. LE library routines may be smart enough to do that. But the compiler can’t do that in the case you compiled on a z14 to run on any lower level supported architecture.
Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks > On May 3, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Brian Chapman <bchapma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We have a vendor debugging product that is constantly causing 0C1 and 0C4 > abends since we have upgraded to COBOL 6.2. It also caused these abends > when we were at COBOL 4,2, but the abend rate has grown considerably after > the upgrade. > > The vendor has produced countless patches, but so far they have not > resolved the issues. We were notified today that they believe they > understand the issue. They are stating that even though our COBOL compiler > is set with ARCH(8) (to support our DRE machine), LE run-time is > recognizing that the program is COBOL 6.2, running on a z14, and > automatically switch the ARCH level to ARCH(12). They believe the run-time > execution is exploiting the new Vector Packed Decimal Facility and > producing erratic behavior. > > I searched through several presentations and IBM manuals for COBOL 6.2, and > everything I have found states that a recompile with ARCH(12) is required > to take advantage of the new facility. Is the vendor correct? > > > > Thank you, > > Brian Chapman > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
