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COBOL 'C' HP32213 (ANSI 68) Product Users by Julia Rodriguez/John Pavone--Data & Languages Division/CLL The COBOL 68 compiler product was obsoleted on May 1, 1987. MPE V/E users were advised to take ownership of the compiler and the USLfile, COB68LIB.PUB.SYS, which contained the COBOL 68 library procedures. This notification was published in the Communicator issues for the V, V-Delta-1 and V-Delta-2 MIT releases. Refer to that article for details. Effective with the MPE XL Release 1.2 , the library procedures are no longer supplied within the System SL.PUB.SYS file. Users who intend to execute any object programs in compatibility mode which contain modules compiled using the COBOL 'C' (ANSI 68) compiler must install the obsoleted library procedures on the XL system. Failure to do so will result in "UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL" errors.
NOTE Note that for MPE V/E systems, effective with the V-Delta-4 release, the SL.PUB.SYS file no longer includes the library procedures.
Since this product is no longer supported by Hewlett-Packard, it is recommended that the COBOL 68 procedures be installed in a group or account SL within the user file domain. This installation can be simply performed by using the MPE V/E SEGMENTER command ADDSL to add the segment COBLIB14 to your user library. This operation will need to be performed only once since subsequent system updates will not disturb the files in the user domain. It is noted that the segment name COBLIB14 will continue to be utilized by HP for other non-COBOL 68 procedures, within the SL.PUB.SYS file. Therefore, any attempt to ADDSL the COBOL 68 procedures into the SL.PUB.SYS file will result in a "DUPLICATE SEGMENT" error. Should some users still desire to install within the SL.PUB.SYS file, a NEWSEG operation will be required to change the COB68LIB file segment name from COBLIB14 to COB68LIB and then perform the ADDSL COB68LIB operation. Selection of this alternative will require the user to perform the installation each time the system is updated since the update will replace the SL.PUB.SYS file. A modified COB68LIB file, using the segment name COB68LIB, has been provided to World-Wide Response Centers. Users who desire to install the COBOL 68 library procedures into the SL.PUB.SYS file and do not wish to perform the renaming operation of the segment COBLIB14 to COB68LIB, can contact their Response Center to obtain a copy of the modified USL file.