COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Native COBOL Cross Compiler on PC
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
34-10
Tools and Utilities
In the OSS environment, you must either set the
_TANDEM_VISUALINSPECT_WSADDR environment variable in your $HOME/.profile
file or enter the workstation IP address as a command-line parameter. RUNV reads the
IP address from the environment variable or from the command line. If you have set
the environment variable but enter a different IP address on the RUNV command line,
the command-line entry overrides the environment variable definition. You define the
workstation IP address in your $HOME/.profile file only once unless the IP address
changes.
Tools and Utilities
These tools and utilities allow you to use the native COBOL cross compiler more
efficiently:
•
NonStop ar Utility
•
TACL DEFINE Tool (ETK and TDS)
•
PC-to-NonStop-Host Transfer Tools
NonStop ar Utility
The NonStop ar utility creates and maintains archive libraries. The NonStop ar utility
can process a set of arguments that you enter, or you can use an OBEY command file
to supply arguments to the ar utility.
When an archive contains one or more TNS/R (native) object files, Windows nld can
use the archive as an object file library, replacing most functions provided by the
Binder SELECT SEARCH command. For information about Windows nld, see the nld
Manual.
The Windows-hosted ar utility does not differentiate between OSS and Guardian
target files. To avoid run-time errors, be sure that procedures in archives used for
resolving references work on the target platform.
TACL DEFINE Tool (ETK and TDS)
On the ETK and TDS platform, this GUI-based tool allows you to add ADD, MODIFY,
SET, and DELETE statements to a DEFINE file. The TACL DEFINE tool automatically
sets the first entry in the DEFINE command file to be SET DEFMODE ON. You can
leave this default or change it to SET DEFMODE OFF. Files created by the TACL
DEFINE tool have the extension .tdf.
Note. The ar utility can also use archives created from TNS/R PIC linkable files by the ld
utility. For information about the ld utility, see the ld Manual.