Re: Re: MVT COBOL under MVS3.8j.

"Giuseppe Vitillaro giuseppe-yuD/ahkh7LvrZ44/[email protected] [H390-MVS]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.mvs
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2019, Dave Kreiss [email protected] [H390-MVS] wrote:

> Ok I think I have this figured out.  Of course I could of have broken
> something else...
>
> The TBGETALL appears to have a requirement that it must be in either the
> first or second MASTAM.  In all my tests there are 3 so we take the a
> branch to TBERR4 in TBGETALL:
>         LA    R4,TBMASTAM
>         C     R4,TBLASMTM
>         BE    TBGTAL21            ONLY 1 MASTAM
>         LA    R5,TBMSTMLG(R4)
>         C     R5,TBLASMTM
>         BNE   TBERR4              R5 NOT EQUAL TO TBLASMTM
> I can see the storage obtain in the trace table just before the U16 abend.
> In the TBGETSPC I see  check for the longest phase which is phase 1 and a
> quick exit bypassing the GETMAIN for the 3rd MASTAM.
>         CLI   DX0(R10),LONGPHS
>         BE    TBGETXIT            THIS IS LONGEST PHASE
> My solution is to zap that phase test to 0A the cross reference phase
> preventing the third MASAM.  I have tested several old  programs and they
> compile successfully now.
> ZAP is simple:
> //ZAP     EXEC PGM=AMASPZAP
> //SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=*
> //SYSLIB   DD  DSN=your COBOL steplib here,DISP=SHR
> //SYSIN    DD  *
> NAME IKFCBL00 PH0TBST1
>  VER 05F0 9504A000
>  REP 05F0 950AA000
> /*
> This is my compile parameters:
> //COBOL   EXEC COBUCLG,REGION=200K,
> //             PARM=('LOAD,SUPMAP,SIZE=100K,BUF=5K',
> //             'NOLIB,SXREF,DMAP,PMAP,VBREF')
> The zap needs more tests but worked  for the simple hello world and my
> other old COBOL program that does amortization.
>
> Dave
>

Well, what I would call "an hack" ;-)

Well done!

Peppe.
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