Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-08 Thread Chase, John
Hi, Listers, We seem to have hit a "show stopper" in our effort to implement COBOL v5.1 (upgrading from COBOL v4.2). A collection of nightly batch jobs incurs sporadic, seemingly random S0C4 abends when the "main" program and a couple of subroutines are compiled with the COBOL v5.1 compiler,

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-08 Thread John Clifford
John, Several years ago, We upgraded to z/os 1.11 from 1.9 and cobol 3 to cobol 4.1 (I think). Several of our production cobol jobs got S0C4 abends but not on the 'test' LPAR which stayed 1.11. Turned out to be a combo of altered base compiler options combined with several LE parms. Once we got t

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-08 Thread Brian Peterson
We have had a lot of success with COBOL 5 but have had a few "edge cases" where we've seen issues. Since you mention OPT(1), one thing we've seen with COBOL 5 is that the calling and called program parameter lists must be identical. Check and see if there is a coding mistake where your calling

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-08 Thread Steve Comstock
On 10/8/2014 8:35 PM, Brian Peterson wrote: We have had a lot of success with COBOL 5 but have had a few "edge cases" where we've seen issues. Since you mention OPT(1), one thing we've seen with COBOL 5 is that the calling and called program parameter lists must be identical. Check and see if

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-08 Thread Jim Mulder
> We seem to have hit a "show stopper" in our effort to implement > COBOL v5.1 (upgrading from COBOL v4.2). > > A collection of nightly batch jobs incurs sporadic, seemingly random > S0C4 abends when the "main" program and a couple of subroutines are > compiled with the COBOL v5.1 compiler, wit

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-09 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Mulder > > > [ snip ] > > I reviewed your PMR and dumps, and made some suggestions in the PMR. > > Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY Thank you, Sir. We'll run it by Change Control,

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-09 Thread Keith Smith
Cut-n-past to the list maybe? On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Chase, John wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Mulder > > > > > [ snip ] > > > > I reviewed your PMR and dumps, and made some suggestions in the PMR. > > > > Jim Mulder

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-09 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Keith Smith > > Cut-n-past to the list maybe? I s'pose: "something like SLIP SET,SA,RA=(25

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-09 Thread Keith Smith
Thank you! We are about to start looking at V5.1 for production and I am accumulating a quick list for reference if we run into anything. We have had success so far with the limited testing we have completed. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Chase, John wrote: > > -Original Message- > > F

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-09 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Keith Smith > > Thank you! We are about to start looking at V5.1 for production and I am > accumulating a quick list for > reference if we run into anything. We have had success so far with the > limited testing we h

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-09 Thread Chase, John
' > Subject: RE: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1 > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Keith Smith > > > > Cut-n-past to the list maybe? > > I s'pose: > > "something like > SLIP > SET,SA,RA=(25

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-10 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I only had similar problems once in 2008 ca., but then subtasking was involved and APL etc., and there was some sort of race condition where one subtask ran too fast and the POST/WAIT protocol dit not work ... ABEND S201, IIRC ... the error was in IBM code, not in ours. The problem occured onl

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-12 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer > > I only had similar problems once in 2008 ca., but then subtasking was > involved and APL etc., and there > was some sort of race condition where one subtask ran too fast and the > POST/WAIT protoco