How find whether it is VS COBOL-II or OSVS COBOL

krbabu · Active User Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 57

Hi all,
How to find whether it is vs cobol-II or os vs cobol without seeing the cobol program?But we have to find from listing? Is it posible or not?

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 903 Location: India

Dear Babu,

Yes, It's possible. Check your compiler listing after compiling your program. (In Spool Display its named as SYSPRINT).

The first line should be your compiler name, if it's not overrided by your System Admin. (You can see this line before compiler option list).

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1493

Hi Ravindra,

If you don't have a listing you can look at the load module to get the compiler info.

For OS/VS modules the 4 bytes beginning at offset X'14' (or pos 21 decimal) will give you the compiler name and release number, e.g. VSR3.

For COBOL2 modules the 10 bytes beginning at offset X'0D' (or pos 14 decimal) will give you the compiler name and version/release/mod number, e.g. ' C2 2.3.0 '.

Regards, Jack.