>So what can you do *today* if you have an immediate requirement for an AMODE >64 COBOL program per Tom Savor's comment, a program that must run both in CICS >>Transaction Server for z/OS and in non-CICS batch mode? Tom Marchant provides >one answer that works today and is fully IBM supported: >compile both AMODE 31 and AMODE 64 versions of the same COBOL program from the >same source code. Invoke the former within CICS TS, and invoke the latter in >(non->CICS) batch, assuming the program can otherwise run both inside and >outside CICS TS. Before you dismiss this idea out of hand, let's recognize >that many software vendors >already do this and have for many years, for >example when they compile and distribute "performance tuned" and "compatible" >releases of their software products, each using >different compiler parameters >(ARCH, TUNE, etc., as applicable). Also, "debug" and "non-debug" versions, and >"ABO'ed" and "non-ABO'ed." Importantly, it's not two versions >of source code; >it's only two versions post-compilation.
For us, the programs that run in Batch and Online are DB2 i/o programs. So your solution wont work for us as SQL and LP(64) are in-compatible. Thanks, Tom Savor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
