Re: COBOL Verify Errors

Joe,

The "paragraph contains no lines" error is just a warning. I've compiled
lots of COBOL programs with paragraphs which are just place-holders for
future development in the program. I also see this message everytime I
compile a SQLCBLLE prgoram--the compile works fine.

btw- Are you finding the performance of the verify acceptable? I've not
installed V7 yet (just got the CDs), but I gave up on it in V6. A compile
was lightening quick by comparison. I've had some verifies which have
taken around 20 minutes or longer if I recall correctly.

Michael Quigley
AS/400 Programming Section
The Way International
www.TheWay.org




date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:28:41 -0500
from: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: [WDSCI-L] COBOL Verify Errors

Here are a couple of problems I've found using the Verify feature for
COBOL.

1. In COBOL, the EXEC SQL INCLUDE SQLCA END-EXEC statement brings in a
virtual include file containing the SQL communications area. Verify fails
on this statement unless you actually have an SQLCA copybook in your
include
path.

2. If you create a paragraph with just SQL statements, Verify fails with a
"paragraph contains no lines" error (and sometimes other weird things
happen, but that's the primary problem).

The workaround for problem 1 is to create an SQLCA copybook. As far as I
can tell, the COBOL SQL precompiler ignores this copy book.

The workaround for problem 2 is to put a non-SQL line at the beginning of
the paragraph. I code a MOVE 0 TO SQLCODE at the beginning of each
paragraph.

Joe

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