Cobol - Alas, poor ILBOWAT0, I knew you well <G>

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Alas, poor ILBOWAT0, I knew you well <G>

William M. Klein

2007-02-07, 3:55 am

to: comp.lang.cobol and IBM-MAIN

For those of you who may have missed it in IBM's z/OS 1.9 "preview" at (long
URL)
http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/f...num=ENUS207-018

There is a paragraph that says,

"A pair of new callable services are planned, CEE3DLY and CEEDLYM, that will be
designed to enable Language Environment-conforming applications to suspend
execution. These new services are intended to allow you to migrate COBOL
applications away from ILBOWAT0."

See existing SHARE requirement:

SSLNGC0313580 Port CEE5DLY functionality to LE for z/OS and for z/VM

(even if that requirement was showing "RECOGNIZED" and not ACCEPTED)

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com

2007-02-07, 7:55 am

In article <yceyh.12577$dB4.594@fe08.news.easynews.com>,
William M. Klein <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:
>to: comp.lang.cobol and IBM-MAIN
>
>For those of you who may have missed it in IBM's z/OS 1.9 "preview" at (long
>URL)
>
>http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/f...num=ENUS207-018
>
>There is a paragraph that says,
>
>"A pair of new callable services are planned, CEE3DLY and CEEDLYM, that will be
>designed to enable Language Environment-conforming applications to suspend
>execution. These new services are intended to allow you to migrate COBOL
>applications away from ILBOWAT0."

Maybe it's just my current environment... but I've had difficulties in
calling ILBOWAT0 for a few years.

I will not post the code (or compile or jcl) unless someone wants to
discuss it.

DD

William M. Klein

2007-02-07, 6:55 pm

Doc,
The usual problems with using ILBOWAT0 are:

1) Calling program not compiled with DATA(24) (as ILBOWAT can't understand
31-bit addresses)

2) Someone has "played games" with run-time libraries trying to concatenate LE
and OS/VS COBOL (or VS COBOL II) run-times "together" in STEPLIB or LINKLIST

3) Problem with TRUNC setting.

If you actually WANT to try and get it working, send me email off list and we
can see what is happening.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
<docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:eqcllu$ae7$1@reader2.panix.com...
> In article <yceyh.12577$dB4.594@fe08.news.easynews.com>,
> William M. Klein <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe it's just my current environment... but I've had difficulties in
> calling ILBOWAT0 for a few years.
>
> I will not post the code (or compile or jcl) unless someone wants to
> discuss it.
>
> DD

2007-02-07, 6:55 pm

In article <mlpyh.190451$L62.76183@fe12.news.easynews.com>,
William M. Klein <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:

[snip]

>If you actually WANT to try and get it working, send me email off list and we
>can see what is happening.

Moved to email.

DD

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