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Finally solved a nagging Hercules/MVS problem that has had me stumped for days (card image exceeds maximum 80). After watching the YouTube video… “MVS 3.8 or z_OS – Installing and using the Assist Assembler – M17” which documents Jay Mosley’s Assist Assembler install procedure. I decided I wanted to do the same with 1 exception…I …
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Trying to create a VSAM cluster, success finally, but many various problems with…IDC3025I INSUFFICIENT SUBALLOCATION DATA SPACEFor example, in my case adding ‘UNIQUE’ fixed the problem.
Fixed sort04.cob amounts and arithmetic on those fields after figuring out how…again, how IBM COBOL works with these fields. It was working but not displaying amount fields and I had left it that way until I understood why. By working I mean producing output and running to completion. So I guess I should really say …
I mentioned here something odd and confusing to me. So played with it and certainly can work around it. However I still find it strange that in IBM COBOL, at least this very old version, I can’t move a field defined as 999.99 to another field defined as 999.99. I guess the answer simply is …
Modified parseJob, my Hercules local prt file extractor (see here) to also parse prt00f.txt. For me prt00e.txt is most useful. There’s also a prt002.txt file, but I didn’t process because I haven’t seen it’s output yet.
Even though I said this wasn’t a high priority, I did some more work on my greenbar program. Seems to do a pretty fair job. Not exactly an example of my finest programming skills. A lot of trial and error rather than properly understanding the process. I think I understood it better a few years …
It is so much easier to look at MVS Job output locally on Linux (taking into account the choices of tools and editors available) than on the TSO, 80 column 3270 terminal. If you specify MSGCLASS=A in your JCL your output gets sent to the Hercules local prt subdirectory. However Hercules just appends each output …
Got simple Assembler program to run. It did have a error ‘IEW1161 WARNING – NO ENTRY POINT RECEIVED’ that needs fixing. Sounds bad but it was a warning. And it did read my 50 test disk records and wrote all 50 to printer. I need to re-familiarize myself with addressability. Not a terrible beginning. Syntactically, …
My Assembler program needs simple test data (no names or addresses) so used the IEBDG utility for that.
I guess I don’t remember COBOL as well as I thought, because when the below COBOL move statement gives me an error…it’s time for a review. 00032 05 WS-AMOUNT1 PIC 999.99.00033 05 WS-AMOUNT2 PIC 999.99.00080 MOVE WS-AMOUNT1 TO WS-AMOUNT2. 80 IKF4052I-E DNM=1-254 (NE) MAY NOT BE TARGET FIELD FOR DNM=1-225 (NE) IN MOVE STATEMENT, AND …