Re: %KDS Compile Problem

[Tony Carolla <carolla@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good Morning, Jon

<snip>

> My experience in compiler support leads me to believe that those who
> have experienced such problems perhaps didn't report it to IBM and that 
> had
> they done so, in most cases it would have been a user error. Sometimes it
> is indeed a compiler bug, but they are the minority and usually quickly
> fixed.
> 
> Have any of you that have mentioned these "odd" happenings with using the
> file name reported them?

</snip>

I have not. I assumed it was an error on my part, but as soon as I figured 
out that using the format name alleviated the problem, I stopped pursuing 
the issue. Also, since I learned the free-format way to specify the field 
names directly on the CHAIN, READE, etc (CHAIN (FIELD1:FIELD2) FORMAT), I 
use that method exclusively. I am confident that, at the time, there was a 
problem, because it was fixed by simply using the format name instead of the 
file name.

But today, I wrote a simple 10-line program using %KDS with the filename, 
against the same file that was giving me a problem before, and it compiled 
beautifully... So I _choose_ to believe that one of the PTFs that we have 
applied in the last year or so fixed it. No way to be certain at this point. 
;-)

Michael, you should apply the latest cumulative PTF package, and it will 
probably fix the problem. 


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