Re: MVT COBOL under MVS3.8j.

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019, Vince Coen [email protected] [H390-MVS] wrote:

> This problem has been present for some time - well before TK4/8 was
> released.
>
> To that end I recreated a cobol cross reference tool called cobxref and
> made it available via SF.
>
> It is also available on my server at :
>
> http://www.applewood.linkpc.net/files/MVS3.8J/
>
> along with some other MVS related items including a large pile of
> manuals in pdf format and a collection of notes from various sources on
> MVS and using it for the hercules community that I found a useful memory
> refresher as file MVS-Notes in different archive formats.
>
> Help yourself.
>
> Vince
Thanks Vince, a useful tool, a nice collection
of infos, appreciated.

But doesn't solve the problem about why MVT COBOL
report this weird error code about "fragmented core".

For what I'm reading in the IBM manuals, the compiler
doesn't even "sort" the symbol table and in the manuals,
again, there are JCL examples for PARM='XREF' within an 86Kb region.

So, now I'm really curious about WHY it can't create
the symbol table of a twenty lines COBOL source
core inside a 9Mb region.

Something seems plainly broken in this compiler.

Peppe.