Re: Cobol compiler date

--- In [email protected], "halfmeg" <opplr@...> wrote:
>
> IIRC the search for the '19' began with discounting 
> the COBLIB as possibly containing something which 
> only shows up during the compile.  A test compile 
> gave me the header line.  From it I 'grepped' the 
> COBOL source looking for 'CB545', not found.  Using 
> REVIEW looked at the COBOL load modules and found 
> at least one without source, IKFCBL01 ( actually 
> does have source but not named IKFCBL01 and in a 
> totally unexpected location ).  Searched for 'CB545' 
> again, found it, searched for '19', found it and a 
> date formatted similar to the COBOL header line output.  
> ZAPped the 19 to a 20, tested and posted.  It wasn't 
> rocket science by any means.

It may not be rocket science, but it was a wonderful
display of lateral thinking. At least in this instance,
I thought this was too hard to find a "19" and the
thought never occurred that it might be in the same
place as a more easily recognizable string.

And I would normally expect something like that to
be an integer anyway, so you'd need to search for
x'00000013' or somesuch.

BFN.  Paul.