RE: reading source code

Hi Kelly,

You can read the source code right from the source physical file. The format
of the source record looks like this:

       01            INPRCDD.
           05        INPSEQ             PIC  9(04)V9(02).
           05        INPDATE            PIC  9(06).
           05        INPDATA            PIC  X(80).

INPSEQ is the sequence number, INPDATE is the change date, and INPDATA is
the actual source code.

To access a specific member in your analysis program, you need to do an
OVRDBF first. I usually have a CL program do the OVRDBF and then call my
analysis program, although I've also used QCMDEXC within my analysis program
to do the OVRDBF command internally. The OVRDBF command would look like:

        OVRDBF FILE(infile) TOFILE(sourcelibrary/sourcefile) MBR(member)

infile is the name of the file reference in your analysis program,
sourcelibrary/sourcefile is the name of the source physical file, and member
is the name of the member you want to process.

Hope this helps!
Richard Casey



-----Original Message-----
From: cobol400-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:cobol400-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Kelly Cookson
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:35 AM
To: cobol400-l@midrange.com
Subject: reading source code


Hi.

I would like to try my hand at developing some
programs to analyze COBOL-400 source code. We store
the source code for each COBOL program as a member in
a source physical file.

What would be the best way for me to access the source
code for analysis?  Is there any way to READ a member
in a source physical file?  Is there any way to save a
member as a data physical file (e.g., a flat file with
one line of source code being one record)?

I'd appreciate any ideas.

Thanks,

Kelly Cookson