RE: ? CTMS COBOL:

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Probably none, considering it's for S/36EE use and the S/36 SSP can only
handle 8 character names.
I suppose you could rename your source members chopping out two
characters.
Surely you don't need all 10 characters to come up with a unique name ?



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James W. Kilgore [SMTP:qappdsn@ibm.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 1998 3:16 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: ? CTMS COBOL:
> 
> 
> 
> Jon Paris wrote:
> 
> <<snip>>
> 
> >  I also don't understand
> > why they are making a big deal out of writing the source to tape -
> should be a
> > simple matter to write a quick-n-dirty to write all the source to a
> single file
> > on tape with some kind of inter-file marker, then read that tape on
> the 400
> > generating  the individual source files.  It's not difficult on most
> systems to
> > do something like this.
> >
> 
> Jon,
> 
> For those that do not shudder at executing something from a S/36EE,
> what whould be
> the chances of IBM expanding FROMLIBR to support 10 character names?
> 
> This would permit someone the ability to create a physical file, with
> member
> delimiters, which could be restored properly (subtypes and all)
> without ANY "Q&D"
> programs.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
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