IBM MAINFRAME HELP FORUMS for COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS etc...

bijal.awhad · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 5 Location: Bangalore

Hi

I am trying to install Easy comp tool which is basically REXX based tool ,which makes the life of the mainframe programmer easy by taking care of all aspects during the compilation of a COBOL.

I have got the source code from my mate and i am following the given steps for the initial Setup like
1)Copying COMPILE and SETPCNF respectively in the dataset USERID.REXX.EXEC
2)Copying COMPILE and SETPCNF respectively in the dataset USERID. PANELLIB
3) Copying COMBSKL and COMCSKL respectively in the dataset USERID.SKELLIB

Upon completion of above steps,giving TSO COMPILE in the command prompt should take me to the Initial Screen of the tool

But when I gave TSO COMPILE in the command prompt it is throwing me an error

61 +++ job = usr:
60 +++ usr = userid()
40 +++ call prc_init
Error running COMPILE, line 61: Invalid character in program

From above message it is clear that in line 61, character ':' after usr is not recognizable to system.

So after checking the code I found that 'job = usrłłc'
Code is given as follows

num_2 = 2
num_8 = 8
usr = userid()
job = usrłłc
dsn = ''usr''.skellib
upper job
return(0)

can anybody suggest me the significance of character "łł" ,wheteher it is wrongly put and also tell me what should I do to debug the error.

superk · Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Charlotte,NC USA

It looks to me like the hex value for the concatenation operator || has been corrupted.

I think it's supposed to be

job = usr||c