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Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 17, 2015

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Priovide a utility to format COBOL Signature Bytes out of a loadmodule or program object

If customers don't have a compiler listing avaiable, i.e. OEM software, they are not able to identify the signature bytes (like compile time options)

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - COBOL Compilers

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - COBOL Compilers

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 21, 2015

    System utility AMBLIST (included with all z/OS systems) will show the raw bytes. Then you can use the Programming Guide. If you have a debugger, debuggers do this, such as Debug Tool. In addition, Debug Tool comes with Load Module Analyzer (LMA) that can also be used for this.

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