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

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

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 (lon
g
>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 wil
l 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

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 w
e
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

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