Re: C-preprocessor for COBOL?
From: Arnold Trembley (arnold.trembley_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/07/04
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:49:00 GMT
William M. Klein wrote:
> Herwig,
> I used to hear "urban legends" of IBM mainframe shops where they used the
> PL/I "macro processor" to preprocess COBOL code. There was also a 3rd party
> "vendor product" called META-COBOL which did something similar.
My shop still has old "copybooks" on file that were used by the CICS
1.6.1 MACRO preprocessor to generate COBOL code. That use the macro
capabilities of the IBM mainframe assembler. Some of these things
generate COBOL copybooks, ID division headers, and even procedure
division code without any Macro-level CICS calls.
Of course, that stuff is completely out of date, since Macro-Level
CICS has been off support for years.
Just for playing around, I wrote an HLASM macro to generate a skeleton
COBOL batch program with variable options for including copybooks,
record length, program name, et cetera. It was fun, but I am NO
expert on HLASM macro coding.
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