Identify COBOL version used ?

[John Scott]

Hello we have a set up where Endevor COBOL type is set up to use the latest version of COBOL.

Using this caused surprises for application teams who had not migrated code from unsupported COBOL versions.

I was asked to list the programs where there may be more surprises in store. 

This is not available through processor groups.

Am sure others may have needed to do something similar in the past, interested if the following makes sense or any simpler method....

A long time ago there was a program with Endevor called Inventory Analyser but looking at docs it just talks about setting processor group for COBOL 2

Then I remembered PDSMAN program PDSM22 and found I can report selecting member=xx and also CSECT=xx

//STEP1   EXEC PGM=PDSM22     
//SYSIN    DD *               
SELECT                        
MEMBER=xx                   
CSECT=xx                      
TYPE=LANGUAGE                 

This reports writes a line for each LANGUAGE IDR in CSECT prefixed AA in each member also prefixed AA

The CSECT I want seems to have similar name to the member as opposed to IGZ or something else.

The VV.MM seems to be the COBOL language 42.00 for 4.2 etc

[Attila Fogarasi]

You can also use FileMaster Plus to show the compiler version for load
modules.

//*******************************************************************
//*** CA FILE MASTER PLUS - LOADINFO
//*******************************************************************
//LOADINFO EXEC PGM=CAWABATC,REGION=4M
//STEPLIB DD DSN=your.FILEMSTR.R1200.CDBILOAD,
// DISP=SHR
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=*
//LOADLIB DD DSN=your endevor.LOADLIB,
// DISP=SHR
//SYSIN DD *
LOADINFO,
LOAD,
LOADLIB(LOADLIB),
LINEPAGE(60)
/*

will display the following

...+....10...+....20...+....30...+....40...+....50...+....60
Module Alias of Size EPoint A/Rmode Link-date
SAMPLE01 001600 000000 31 ANY 2023/12/18

CSECT Class Offset Length Type Translator VV.LL
IDR
Class C_CODE

SAMPLE01 000000 000880 SD 5655EC6 06.02



The Cobol compilers are called:

Enterprise COBOL for z/OS

6.1

5655-EC6

Enterprise COBOL Value Unit Edition for z/OS4
<https: www.ibm.com docs en cobol-zos 6.4.0?topic=overview-cobol-compiler-versions-required-runtimes-support-information#igympreab2__li-12125191121>

6.1

5697-V61

Enterprise COBOL for z/OS

6.2

5655-EC6

Enterprise COBOL Value Unit Edition for z/OS4
<https: www.ibm.com docs en cobol-zos 6.4.0?topic=overview-cobol-compiler-versions-required-runtimes-support-information#igympreab2__li-12125191121>

6.2

5697-V61

Enterprise COBOL for z/OS

6.3

5655-EC6

Enterprise COBOL Value Unit Edition for z/OS4
<https: www.ibm.com docs en cobol-zos 6.4.0?topic=overview-cobol-compiler-versions-required-runtimes-support-information#igympreab2__li-12125191121>

6.3

5697-V61

Enterprise COBOL for z/OS

6.4

5655-EC6
Attila Fogarasi

Senior Technical Architect | Mainframe Software


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[John Scott]

Thanks, we don't have that installed but looks like its reporting similar to pdsman