A couple of interesting COBOL V5 fixes

2016-05-22 Thread Bill Woodger
> We have lots of COBOL that does exactly this. I voiced our concerns to Tom > Ross (aka Captain COBOL) on a GSE COBOL WorkGroup meeting in January. Tom was > there and gave presentations about COBOL v5 and ABO. Very interesting to meet > him and hear him speak. At that time he seemed to be awar

Re: A couple of interesting COBOL V5 fixes

2016-05-22 Thread Windt, W.K.F. van der (Fred)
> Firstly, evidence of IBM's plans to make V5 (and onwards) more compatible > with how V4 works. > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI59330 > > "In earlier versions of COBOL, customer source frequently handled > dynamically sized pieces of storage by using a PIC X(1) linkage se

Re: TSO receive on MultiVolume PS error

2016-05-22 Thread Anthony L. Zak
TRANSMIT, a TSO command processor running on the z/OS M/F, repackages the input dataset and then writes it to JES to be handled via NJE which means the data can be RECEIVEd wherever there is NJE connectivity. IND$FILE piggybacks over a 3270 type session with Comm Server and AFAIK only gets you

Re: TSO receive on MultiVolume PS error

2016-05-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2016-05-22, at 14:31, R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2016-05-20 o 18:33, Paul Gilmartin pisze: >>> >> My quick check for this is (IIRC): >> >> cp -B "//'DSN(MEMBER)'" /dev/fd/1 | cksum >> >> ... at both ends of the transfer and compare the checksums and lengths. >> > I remember how I spent half a

Re: TSO receive on MultiVolume PS error

2016-05-22 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-05-20 o 18:33, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Fri, 20 May 2016 06:14:44 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Are you sure your dataset has been transferred properly and fully and without errors before you tried out RECEIVE? My quick check for this is (IIRC): cp -B "//'DSN(MEMBER)'" /

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A couple of interesting COBOL V5 fixes

2016-05-22 Thread Bill Woodger
Firstly, evidence of IBM's plans to make V5 (and onwards) more compatible with how V4 works. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI59330 "In earlier versions of COBOL, customer source frequently handled dynamically sized pieces of storage by using a PIC X(1) linkage section data-it