Listing cobol load module details

rahul1586 · New User Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 28 Location: Mumbai

Hi

We have zOS v1r9 installed in our system.Cobol was installed as part of serverpac.
We want to know when Cobol product was last used in our system, since as per my knowledge we haven't used cobol at all.
Is there any way to find this, for eg load module details with timestamp, etc

Thanks in advance

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:45 am

Hello,

Suggest you look into using AMBLIST.

There are several topics about this in the forum (which can be found by using the forum SEARCH).

Bill Woodger · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:56 am

Are you trying to discover whether anyone has used the compiler? Or whether any of the modules in any load-libraries that you can find are Cobol?

rahul1586 · New User Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 28 Location: Mumbai

Hello all,

I am trying to use AMBLIST pgm by customising it as per my system.
The thing is we do not use COBOL in our system but recently during the audit of our system it came out that cobol has been installed, so now the management wants to know when was COBOL last used in our system.

So I am trying the different options in the AMBLIST pgm.
I tried the following code

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:42 pm

here is a link to amblist examples:
publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.ieab100%2Famblst.htm

Bill Woodger · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:16 pm

PeterHolland · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 2:11 pm

Use the link from dbzTHEdinosauer for the Product Codes and the LISTIDR control statement to find your information.
Eventually SMF can be used to find the date(s) a COBOL compiler was used, you have to to know of course the compiler name(s).

rahul1586 · New User Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 28 Location: Mumbai

Hello all,

Here's what I did..
I used the LISTIDR option in AMBLIST pgm.
but in that I had to provide the member name and there were 1500 members in my load library!
So as per one of the other threads I sorted the members in 3.1 option for the TTR values and selected the member having the highest TTR value.

Using this member in the job I got the last bind date of that member.

Thanks a lot to everyone.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:19 pm

have you ever compressed the loadlibrary?

having gone into the 3.1 member list, you could have done a
SAVE xxx
then edited the userid.xxx.mbrlist
creating 'member control cards for amblist.
the above process would take about 3 minutes.

run the amblist job,
and parsed the output.

i think you have placed too much value on the TTR.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:16 pm

I still think you'd be better off finding out if the compiler had been used. If not, end of story, if so you'd could even get information about who had done it and could find out what other files were used at the same time (ie source programs (if not DD *), object).

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:14 pm

what kind of <derogatory adjective> organization is Yours where <they> do not know what products are being used?

the utilization of a compiler is not something that would go unobserved

it' almost time to lock and delete such a useless topic

sorting by TTR has no value... anyway

rahul1586 · New User Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 28 Location: Mumbai

Hello,

Ours was a serverpac installation and COBOL was installed as a part zOS installation.
But the current application was rewritten in JAVA to run on webpehere application server.
So i just wanted to know if the old COBOL load modules were rebound using the new installation.

Thanks a lot.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:23 am

there is a good chance the cobol is executable even without 'rebinding'

if you want to know if something was executed,
i imagine you would have to go thru the smf