COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.03+)

Creating and Compiling HP COBOL Source
Programs
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Running the Compiler
IN and OUT are options of the TACL command RUN. Other RUN command options
that you might find useful when compiling HP COBOL programs are:
•
NOWAIT
If you specify
ECOBOL /IN XYZ, OUT $SPX.#LPPR, NOWAIT/; RUNNABLE
the TACL program does not wait while the compiler runs, but returns a TACL
prompt after starting the compiler. (The compiler runs in the background.)
•
CPU
ECOBOL /IN XYZ, OUT $SPX.#LPPR, CPU 7/; RUNNABLE
the compiler runs in processor seven (processors are numbered from 0 through
15).
For more information about these and additional RUN commands, see the TACL
Reference Manual.
Using an HP editor, you can create OBEY command files. OBEY command files
contain TACL commands, such as the ECOBOL command, which are executed when
you specify the name of the OBEY command file in an OBEY command. Here is a
sample session:
45> EDIT CFILE1
TEXT EDITOR - T9601D10 - (08JUN92)
$VOL3.SUBVOL2.CFILE1 DOES NOT EXIST. SHALL I CREATE IT? Y
CURRENT FILE IS $VOL3.SUBVOL2.CFILE1
*ADD
1 ECOBOL /IN XYZ,OUT $SPX.#HOLD/
2 //
*EXIT
46> OBEY CFILE1
The command OBEY CFILE1 causes execution of the command:
ECOBOL /IN XYZ,OUT $SPX.#HOLD/
An OBEY command file can contain more than one command. If another OBEY
command file, CFILE2, contains the commands
ECOBOL /IN XYZ,OUT $SPX.#HOLD/
PERUSE
the command OBEY CFILE2 is equivalent to the command series
47> ECOBOL /IN XYZ,OUT $SPX.#HOLD/
48> PERUSE
For more information about OBEY command files, see the Guardian User’s Guide.