Re: Pro*Cobol and Microfocus

Mr. Science wrote:
>
> All- I've been having problems with Pro*Cobol 1.8.2.0.0 and Microfocus
> Cobol (cob -V tells me 1.37). It appears that the calls to Oracle's
> subroutines mess with the value of the RETURN-CODE special register. Of
> course when the STOP RUN statement gets executed, this bogus value is
> returned to the calling environment, and my shell scripts think there's
> an error.
>
> Is there a way around this (e.g. with a command line switch or
> something)? I haven't found anything in the documentation. And I hope
> there's an easier way to take care of this than to modify the hundreds of
> source files I have to manage.
>
> Please reply in group or via mail.
>
> Thanks...
> Mr. Science
> science_at_raptor.cqi.com
>
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If you compile your code with compile option "DEFAULTCALLS=4" I think you will get around your problem.

ex. cob -x -c -C "DEFAULTCALLS=4" prog.cbl

Karstein Næss Received on Tue Nov 11 1997 - 00:00:00 CET