is anybody using Endevor to compile software FINALIST from Pitney Bowes?

[Fred Garabiles]

FINALIST does not have source code but has OBJECT modules, macros, copybooks and JCL to run COMPILE/ASSEMBLY and LINK to create a LOAD libray.  Software requires a SOFTWARE LICENSE KEY that is stored in a load module.  We're not sure how to do it totally through Endevor as it requires an input card.

[Phontilla Shuffitt]

Vendor provided software can be put under Endevor as object type.  Create the new type as delta format of I (Image) source length of 32000.  I have compare FROM 1, with compare To=1

 

Processor would consist of BSTCOPY step from an external library into Endevor protected library with keyword of Footprnt=create on the output statement.

 

Then it can be migrated like any other type.

 

Hope that helps,

Phon

[Fred Garabiles]

Hi Phon,

 

Thank you for the information.  I have passed the information to the programmer.

 

Fred Garabiles

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[roger.howard]

We use a multi step approach.  Some of the delivered objects in our Finalist system were created using a C compiler, so those have to be run through a Prelink step to prepare them for binding.  We created a separate processor group and Endevor type for those, also for the output side decks that the binder needs.  Output from the prelink step is then taken into the Binder, with input binder control cards which we call LINKCARD in our shop.  A LINKCARD element is basically the INCLUDE statements that would be used for a static link.  Hope this helps.

[Fred Garabiles]

Thank you Roger.  Did you have to create ALIAS copies of some of the programs?

 

Fred Garabiles

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[roger.howard]

Yes.  That is taken care of with the instructions to the BINDER in our LINKCARD members.  Basically, we took the installation JCL and build processors to do the individual steps that the vendor supplied procedures do.  The LINKCARD members are named with the name of the element, because that’s how our processor fetch sot from ENDEVOR.  The INCLUDE steps in the installation JCL for each program make up the LINKCARD members.