COBOLLINE

John,

As QPPGMDMP is a general purpose *PRTF used by the (among others) CL,
RPG, and COBOL language compilers I suspect that a variety of languages
are being used to drive the *PRTF.  In this case I also suspect that
COBOL probably introduced a record format (perhaps to print a full
unformatted line?) that other developers found they could re-use (rather
than creating a different format with the same functional intent).  I
feel very safe in saying that not all current implementations of the
"Dump report writer" are written in COBOL (though that shouldn't make a
bit of difference one way or the other anyway), and do not know for a
fact that any of them are (written in COBOL that is).

Bruce Vining

>
>Hey
>Just displayed my open files as a Program dump was being created.
>For the first time I noticed the format name of the Dump Printer file.
>COBOLLINE ?  This was an RPG dump.   Maybe the Dump report writer is
>written COBOL ?  Any ideas?
>
>John
>--------------------
>                             Display Open Files
>
>Job . . :   QPADEV0012     User . . :   JPCARR         Number . . . :
>632520
>Number of open data paths . . . . . . . . . . :     11
>
>
>                      Member/    Record     File   I/O   ----Open---
>Relative
>File       Library    Device     Format     Type  Count  Opt Shr-Nbr  Record
>
>DMPFDDM    JPCARR     DMPFDDM    DMRFDDM    PHY       4  I   NO           12
> CPFPLT    TFLITD100  DCPFPLT    DCRFPLT    PHY       2  IO  NO            2
>DCPFWOM    TFLITD100  DCPFWOM               PHY       0  IO  NO
>QPPGMDMP   QSYS       *SPOOL     COBOLLINE  PRT     741  O   NO
>

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