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The COBEDIT Program
The COBEDIT program resides in the PUB group of the SYS account. This
program allows you to create, modify, and look at a COBOL COPY Library
file.
As part of the create process, you have the option to copy any ASCII file
into the newly created library. Since the records of the file are
eventually used in a COBOL program, they must be valid COBOL statements
or preprocessor commands. Because of the restriction placed on modules
by the COPY command, there should not be any COPY statements as part of
the records in a library.
The commands available in the COBEDIT program are HELP, BUILD, COPY,
LIST, EDIT, SHOW, PURGE, KEEP, and LIBRARY. Enter one of these commands
when the COBEDIT prompt, a greater-than sign ( > ), appears. Several MPE
commands may also be issued from within the COBEDIT program by typing a
colon ( : ) followed by the command that is to be executed. Any
programmatically executable command may be used, that is, those commands
that are executed by the COMMAND intrinsic.
To enter the COBEDIT program, issue the MPE RUN command as shown here:
:RUN COBEDIT.PUB.SYS
When this command is executed, the COBEDIT program displays a header,
including the current date and time, and a "HELP" message followed by the
greater-than prompt.
HP32233A.02.00 COPYLIB EDITOR - COBEDIT MON, MAR 26, 1991, 10:03 AM
(C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1986
TYPE "HELP" FOR A LIST OF COMMANDS.
>
Only one user per logon group can be editing any library file. Other
users in the same logon group must wait until the current user has
finished editing. And, only one user at a time can be editing any
particular library file. COBEDIT opens the library file exclusively.