| Title: | Micro Focus Cobol/2 |
| Notice: | See note 10 for instructions on BUG reports |
| Moderator: | CSC32::E_VAETH |
| Created: | Sat Jan 19 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 577 |
| Total number of notes: | 1843 |
We have two systems which are running Digital UNIX V4.0B and MF COBOL V4.0. On both systems we have a problem compiling COBOL programs. I have tried compiling pi.cbl on a Digital UNIX V4.0B system and get the following: cics02:helen> cob -C nolist +B dynamic -vuP pi.cbl cob -C nolist +B dynamic -C nolist +B dynamic -vuP pi.cbl * Micro Focus COBOL for UNIX V4.0 revision 016 Compiler * Copyright (C) 1984-1995 Micro Focus Ltd. URN 2XUNK/JP0/00000M FATAL ERROR -- Cannot access message file FATAL ERROR -- Cannot access message file * Micro Focus COBOL for Unix V4.0 revision 016 Code generator * Copyright (C) 1984-1995 Micro Focus Ltd. URN 2XUNK/JP0/00000M * Accepted - verbose * File open failure: pi.int cob: error(s) in code generation: pi.int Note that when I do this I am not root. If I do the same on a Digital UNIX V4.0A system all works well - can anyone suggest anything which maybe I'm not seeing. I've checked the environment I'm running on between the two systems and I can't see anything strange. Has anyone sucessfully compiled COBOL programs using MF COBOL on Digital UNIX V4.0B? Thanks, Helen.
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| 559.1 | Haven't tested on V4.0B | PACKED::KIDS::NESCHKE | Tue Feb 18 1997 09:43 | 11 | |
The Micro Focus COBOL V4.0 product hasn't received any testing at Micro Focus or within Digital Engineering on Digital UNIX V4.0B. The product itself has a support base of Digital UNIX V3.2. Testing has been also done at Micro Focus on Digital UNIX V4.0 and during our own release testing on Digital UNIX V4.0. One field test site also found no problems with Digital UNIX V4.0A. You may need to revert back to an earlier Digital UNIX release than V4.0B. In the meantime, I'll see what I can do to recreate what you discovered. If it provides any clue, the error message about "cannot access message file" has to do with NLS. | |||||
| 559.2 | Thanks for the swift reply | CICS03::helen | Helen Pratt | Tue Feb 18 1997 10:10 | 11 |
Thanks for the swift reply. If we get anywhere with this one, I'll post a reply. In the meantime if anyone has any more sucess than I have so far, please post a reply. Thanks again, Helen. | |||||
| 559.3 | Locale Name | MUFFIT::gerry | Gerry Reilly | Wed Feb 19 1997 03:13 | 9 |
Simple problem. The locale names used for the directories in the /usr/lib/cmplrs/cob/lang directory are the shortnames, e.g. en_US. Therefore, if you have LANG setup with full (and proper) locale name en_US.ISO8859-1 you get this error. This is a bug. MF Cobol should use the correct NLS locale names. However, it is simply fixed with a soft link from en_US to en_US.ISO8859-1. -gerry | |||||