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Crunch

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:48 pm
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We have a program that is performing an IMS message switch with another program. I'm getting some weird test results when Xpediting the program. When executing the program outside of Xpediter, the program does not pass the correct data to the program being called. However, when the program is re-compiled in Xpediter the program works as it should. The correct data gets passed to the called program. Has anyone else had this issue? Thanks in advance!!
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Bill Woodger

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:53 pm
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Sounds like a bug in your code which is masked when you recompile it for Xpediter, most likely storage being overwritten.

Compile with SSRANGE. Check order, number, and lengths of parameters from CALL to PROCEDURE DIVISION.
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Rohit Umarjikar

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:23 pm
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How does it execute in production then? if it is a new program then you have to explain what is "Correct data" means, is it truncated? check the copybook , it may happen you are picking up wrong one out side expd.
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Bill O'Boyle

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:59 pm
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SSRANGE must be used together with the LE option CHECK being set to Y. You should NEVER use CHECK in Production.... icon_eek.gif
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Bill Woodger

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:25 pm
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CHECK=YES is (usually) the installed default.

You can use SSRANGE and CHECK=NO in Production (until you get to Enterprise COBOL V5) but there is an overhead (less than doing the CHECK=YES, but still an overhead).

For V5, CHECK in Language Environment is redundant. You either compile with SSRANGE or NOSSRANGE. You can't compile with SSRANGE and decide not to use it at run-time.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:36 pm
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Solved. Somehow the module was compiled to the wrong LOADLIB, which happened to be the first library in the concatenation. We removed that load module from the first LOADLIB which corrected the problem. The correctly compiled version of the program used the 4th library in the concatenation.

I appreciate the input. Thanks!!
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 2:24 am
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It's always a waste of time when you execute the wrong version of a program. So, make sure you know for next time:

Code:
       01  W-WHEN-COMPILED                      PIC X(8)BX(8).
...
           MOVE WHEN-COMPILED           TO W-WHEN-COMPILED
           DISPLAY "prognm " W-WHEN-COMPILED


You do that "first time" in a program (store it somewhere in CICS instead of the DISPLAY, or route it to a log).

When the program fails or when looking into something, find the date/time of the actual program. Saved loads of time over the years.
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