how to compile cobol program without jcl?

ravichand426 · New User Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 1 Location: mumbai

how to compile cobol program without jcl?
what code merge into pgm?

superk

Aren't most programs compiled in the foreground anyway?

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:50 am Post subject:

Hello Ravi and welcome to the forums,

the_gautam · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject:

if you are not willing to use a jcl to compile your cobol programs, you may always compile it using the foreground options. Usually available at 5.2 in the ISPF primary menu.

enrico-sorichetti

superk

enrico-sorichetti

You have the right to disagree

but those organizations encouraged the worst scenario
what I am suggesting, is still the best practice ( by any point of view )
in order to have a manageable environment, with a good control over the workload..

foreground compilations from my measurements quite often more than double the compilation runs

moreover encouraging foreground compilation they encourage bad programming habits
( programmers write and very seldom reread what they have written )

that' s the same thing that happens with debuggers,
people sitting and hitting the enter key to find out errors that 90% of the time
could have been discovered by just reading the program

again what about 600 tso users running a compilation, and sitting there doing nothing,
waiting for something swapped out to be resumed crawling like a sick turtle

those command centers would have lost all the wars

this will be my last post on the subject of foreground vs background

( quite often it will end in a religion war )

P.S.

allowing foreground compilations is a way of faking/cheating on compliance with the SLA
(service level agreement)

reporting for batch is much more understandable by the end user
and the response time cannot be adulterated
availability of resources is easily checked ( jes2 queuing )

reporting for tso/foreground is much more complex/murky to understand by the end user
and resource availability and response times are more difficult to measure and balance
no jes2 qeuing for an initiator, but a tso swap after the compilation invocation
no queuing, but longer elapsed

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject:

In 40 years of programming I have done 2 or 3 foreground compiles.