| William M. Klein 2005-01-21, 8:55 pm |
| Well ....
"ENTRY" as an IBM link-edit (or binder) statement DOES relate to the ENTRY
statement in COBOL (among other things).
If you compile with the (LE-conforming COBOL)
NAME(ALIAS)
compiler option - see:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-...igy3pg20/2.4.31
It will produce the correct "ENTRY" linkage editor card (if needed).
See also the related topics at:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-...gy3pg20/4.1.6.3
Some other "products" (most notably IMS and DB2) have specific ENTRY linkage
requirements.
Do you have a specific question/problem - or is this a "general
information/learning" question?
--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"ki" <please@dontemail.me> wrote in message
news:3acId.62089$w62.39835@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Thanks for your help.
> This was I question I only got half right on a technical.
> Must have been confusing my SYNCSORT with my cobol programs
> in SORT you need to account for the 4 byte RDW.
> As far as the BDW, other than knowing I need to add 4 bytes to the blocksize
> in the JCL I never really paid attention to it, and missed that part of the
> question.
>
> I have one more I missed, can anyone help me with this...
>
> I've never actually compiled using the IBM compiler procs, I've only used
> ChangeMan, that's why I missed this...
> What is ENTRY on a link card?
> I presume this has something to do with entry in a cobol program, but....
>
> Anybody?
>
> TIA
>
>
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> "Andreas Lerch" <andreas@andreas-lerch.de> wrote in message
> news:20050121.18554336@rechner12.lerch.home...
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> Am 20.01.05, 20:52:08, schrieb "ki" <please@dontemail.me> zum Thema
> Variable Length Files:
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> Hi
>
> normaly you can not have access to the RDW (Record Descriptor Word) in
> cobol, only you have a file:
> (william:
> For a Variable length BLOCKED file (on IBM mainframes), There are two
> sets of 4-byte fields, the RDW and BDW. The RDW (Record Descriptor
> Word) appears before each record - guess where the Block Descriptor
> Word is?
> )
> defined with U (undefined).
> Then you will get every date, byte, of a file and must interprate
> yourselve.
>
> See: Loadmodule: they are defined as 'undefined'. The loader does his
> work.
>
> essential: look at the file attributes, and then you will see the
> data, the file contains!
>
> Einen schoenen Tag
> Andreas Lerch
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