RE: Re: Cobol compiler date

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> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Leonard
> Sent: 23 April 2010 05:54
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [turnkey-mvs] Re: Cobol compiler date
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> > Didn't mean to confuse anyone with this.  IFOX, which came 
> with 3.8j, 
> > had various PTF updates in the DLIBs without the source 
> being updated.  
> > Paul G (?) spent some time on updating the IFOX source we 
> had to get 
> > it to generate the distributed modules.
> 
> A side note, while I think of it:  I had a heck of a time 
> getting a version of IFOX00 that would run on MVT.  Any 
> modern version will at some point exhibit an error in which 
> the location counter goes nuts and is suddenly incremented by 
> a very large amount, such that everything becomes 
> unaddressable.  Something introduced by some PTF at some 
> point did something incompatible with MVT.  The version I've 
> found to work consistently under MVT is the version supplied 
> in object deck form with VM/370 R6.  That's the level on the 
> ASP system.

That's possibly because the OS emulation in VM/370 is of MVT not MVS....


> 
> > A side effect of the compiler date zap reminded me that the OS/360 
> > libraries might suffer from the same type thing.  Also that 
> they were 
> > assembled on OS/360 and not on MVS3.8j.  There are probably some 
> > MAClib changes between the two environments. Whether it 
> would benefit 
> > the compilers and run time libraries to be generated from source on 
> > MVS3.8j is unknown at present.
> 
> Mostly what gets assembled in MVT stage 2 for compilers
> and libraries are small modules containing default options.
> ANS COBOL is an exception; for some reason, the default
> options are included as part of a full-size module.
> Except for things that get assembled in MVT stage 2, we
> have the same problem with MVT that we have with MVS:
> load modules with PTFs are newer than the source we've
> got.
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