Re: Cobol compiler date

--- In [email protected], "Kevin Leonard" <kl_j76@...> wrote:
>
> > 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.  

Could you document this properly please? ie
provide an example of valid source that
fails to assemble (provide the JCL to) on MVT,
but the exact same source works on MVS?

Are you sure you didn't just use mismatched
source when building IFOX?

> 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.

A lot of effort has been spent bringing IFOX
source up to date, and it's available here:

http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/ifox00.htm

With a bit of luck someone will see a challenge
in finding what's causing something to work in
MVS but not MVT.

Thanks.  Paul.