On Fri, 3 May 2019 15:57:34 -0400, 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? > > I've never heard of that and I wouldn't expect IBM to ever do something like that, but heck, what do I know. ;-) LE shouldn't be trying to outsmart the person that compiled the code (IMHO). 1) Have you verified the options in a compile listing are as you expected? 2) Are you running ABO and could that be involved? Although I know nothing about configuration ABO (I have never "seen" or used it), even if you were I woudn't think you would have it configured to use z14 instructions. If LE really is doing this, why even have an ABO product. I certainly would open an SR with IBM LE support about it. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
