Assembler program compile issues

mohanreddy_y · New User Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 4

Hi Every1,

when I tried to compile my Assembler program, I am getting below errors.

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MEMBERS COPIED FROM SYSLIB

DFHTCADS ** NOT FOUND **
DFHCSADS ** NOT FOUND **
DFHAID ** NOT FOUND **
DFHBMSCA ** NOT FOUND **
SDSCWADS No Control Information Available
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In my system library I didn't found DFHTCADS, DFHCSADS,... members. I think these members are related to CICS. Where these members are available? I think those will be in a standard dataset which will be same for all systems.

could you please help me to resolve my compilation issues.

Thanks,
Raj.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:17 am

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:33 am

They are in your particular version/release SDFHMAC CICS Library, which must be included in your Assembly (ASMA90) SYSLIB concatenation -

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:18 am

Hello,

If you are using assembly jcl that you found or created, throw it away.

You need to only use compile/assemble jcl that is standard for your environment - not something that non-standard.

mohanreddy_y · New User Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 4

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. I am using the JCL which was provided by the system users earlier. My project is Sun setting application, the program which I am trying to assemble is very very old (last compiled is in 1995). Nobody were there to give me transition.

Now I am trying to assemble the pgm, but I am getting the error which has described in previous message.

My question is in which library i can get the copybooks DFHTCADS, DFHCSADS,...etc. Probably these members will be located in same library everywhere. Could you please provide that so that I can give that PDS in the SYSLIB of my assemble JCL.

Thanks
Raj

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:44 pm

Hello,

You have already been given what someone unfamiliar with your system can provide. . .

Dataset names (while sometimes similar) are still site-specific. We can't know how your system is configured. It is also possible that some of the needed datasets have been deleted for lack of use over time.

Suggest you find the most senior system support person and work with them. Try to find a similar assembly that currently works.

Good luck

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:55 pm

in addition,

things change by release.

if you are dealing with a program origanally assembled for cics in 1995,
it would have be cics version ???

if the current version of cics on your system is ??? + ?, then
1. you are at best going to have compatibility problems with cics - if the old version does not work with the new cics.
2. at worse, be required to modify the assembler to deal with new cics copybooks - if there are changes.

you need to speak with your site systems people. nobody outside of that group will know what library to use.

Robert Sample · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:48 pm

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:11 pm

Two issues -

1) Does the program issue an EXEC CICS ADDRESS CSA API? The last version/release this was supported was CICS/ESA 3.1.1, also known as the "Hybrid" version.

2) What version/release are you assembling this program for now? If it's greater than the above 3.1.1 version/release, you'll need alternative code to gain CSA-addressability in a different manner. If your current version/release is CICS/TS 3.2 or greater, then attempting to use the TCA-address from the CSA will cause an ASRD abend as this address (always X'4C' off the CSA) became "Fetch Protected" in TS/3.2.

You've got some work to do.

For TCA-addressability, search the forum for DFHKERN or "Google" it. For CSA addressability, search the forum for DFHAFCD or "Google" it.

By chance, is this program CICS/Macro level as opposed to CICS/Command level?

If this is true, then you have more work to do than anticipated and perhaps, a total rewrite, with the possibility of some of the existing program logic salvageable.

Bill

Bill Woodger · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:20 pm

Maybe the situation is not so bad.

If the program is currently working on the Sun setting application (I'm guessing, just a guess, that it is the code for that little "flash" just as the sun finally disappears), then it is compatible with the CICS you are running it under, even if you are keeping an old version for this purpose.

Although you could search for the SDFHMAC or similar qualifier yourself, since that might not be the end of your programs, I'd recommend Dick's suggestion that you find the most senior techie you can, and get their help. Otherwise the danger is you'll spend time getting through this bit, and then get stuck on the next, etc.

mohanreddy_y · New User Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 4

Hi,

Thank you very much for all your replies. I will let you know once I get the resolution.

Thanks,
raj.