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sprikitik
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Hi,
Anybody has na idea on how to search for hard coded db2 timestamp in cobol source? Aside from manually going through all the prgrams.
I have 100 cobol programs and I wanted to check if there are hard coded timestamps in the programs.
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Bill Woodger
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| I'm not sure I understand you, but have you a product with which you can search a PDS/some other source library? If so, is that any use to you? |
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enrico-sorichetti
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it looks to me more an issue of pattern searching
since the timestamp <value> is unpredictable...
noo way with common searching tools , need to be creative  |
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Bill Woodger
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It the "timestamp" has been coded to cover the last decade-or-so it would start '20 or "20.
It can sometimes be "tricky" to get the correct number of quotes/apostrophes for such a case, and you may well get false hits (fewer if all the hard-coding is for 2010 onwards) but it will be "obvious" on the output what is a timestamp and what isn't.
If you are doing Greater than or Less than with the timestamp, you may well have a low-order part of the literal you could use to search for with even better results. Or both of them on the same line.
I can be wildly wrong, as I don't really know what you are talking about :-) |
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xknight
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Hello,
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| I have 100 cobol programs and I wanted to check if there are hard coded timestamps in the programs. |
As suggested by enrico and bill, alteast parital values should be known to you to perform the search.
In your source PDS,
try giving the command
to find the programs used the current year & current month.
Likewise, Modify on your need(might require to know the year,month) & do the search . |
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Bill O'Boyle
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In a COBOL Load Module, there is a date/time stamp which conforms to what is returned by the WHEN-COMPILED function.
You can visually find this within the first X'100' bytes of a given Load Module, by browsing the targeted loadlib using ISPF 3.4. |
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GuyC
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within edit you can use following command to locate timestamps
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| find p'####$##$##$##$##$##' |
You could write a rexx that opens each member in edit, does above find and reports the returncode. |
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don.leahy
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| GuyC wrote: |
within edit you can use following command to locate timestamps
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| find p'####$##$##$##$##$##' |
You could write a rexx that opens each member in edit, does above find and reports the returncode. |
Good one! One of my pet ISPF peeves is that the SRCHFOR command doesn't support picture strings. If it did, then you wouldn't have to write a rexx. |
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Marso
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Mabuhay, sprikitik !
I tried using ISRSUPC with the following statements:
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SRCHFOR '-'
SRCHFORC '-',+3
SRCHFORC '-',+3
SRCHFORC '.',+3
SRCHFORC '.',+3 |
It found the timestamps I scattered in my test pds.
Note: I didn't do extensive tests, there may be some false alerts too. |
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sprikitik
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| Marso wrote: |
Mabuhay, sprikitik !
I tried using ISRSUPC with the following statements:
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SRCHFOR '-'
SRCHFORC '-',+3
SRCHFORC '-',+3
SRCHFORC '.',+3
SRCHFORC '.',+3 |
It found the timestamps I scattered in my test pds.
Note: I didn't do extensive tests, there may be some false alerts too. |
Hey, SalamaT!
It worked! |
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sprikitik
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| Thanks for all the replies! I appreciate it very much! |
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