<div dir="ltr"><div>I must add what I have learned today, without fetching something into COS<br></div> the linkage between the emulated mainframe and the COS kernel fails. What I am looking for is buried in a manual I have already read, I just have to find it again. :(<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:33 AM Jonathan Engwall <<a href="mailto:engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com">engwalljonathanthereal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Beowulf,</div><div>Tantos' COS simulator appears to in fact have a compiler! Here is what I found in the dump log:</div><div><br></div><div> o$31('CS031 - INVALID DATASET NAME: 'A8) 101('CS101 - BAD CHARACTER IN PROTOTYPE STATEMENT') 103('CS103 - UNTERMINATED LINE IN PROTOTYPE STATEMENT') 104('CS104 - UNBALANCED PARENTHESES IN PROTOTYPE STATEMENT') 105('CS105 - PROTOTYPE SEPARATOR OUT OF SEQUENCE AFTER 'A8) 106('CS106 - RESERVED NAME &DATA USED IN PROTOTYPE') 107('CS107 - DUPLICATED PARAMETER NAME IN PROTOTYPE: 'A8) 108('CS108 - PARAMETER TOO LONG IN PROTOTYPE: 'A8' ...')109('CS109 - POSIT. PARAM. AFTER KEYWORDS IN PROTOTYPE: 'A8) 110('CS110 - NULL PARAMETER IN PROTOTYPE STATEMENT') 111('CS111 - BAD CHARACTER IN PROCEDURE INVOCATION') 113('CS113 - UNTERMINATED LINE IN PROCEDURE INVOCATION')114('CS114 - UNBALANCED PARENTHESES IN PROCEDURE INVOCATION') 115('CS115 - SEPARATOR OUT OF SEQUENCE AFTER 'A8) 116('CS116 - UNRECOGNIZED KEYWORD: 'A8) 117('CS117 - KEYWORD TOO LONG: 'A8' ...') 118('CS118 - POSITIONAL PARAMETER AFTER KEYWORDS: 'A8) 119('CS119 - EXTRA POSTIONAL PARAMETER: 'A8) 120('CS120 - DUPLICATED KEYWORD: 'A8) 121('CS121 - KEYWORD USED WITHOUT ASSIGNING IT A VALUE: 'A8) 122('CS122 - NO VALUE WAS ASSIGNED TO 'A8) 123('CS123 - &DATA NOT DELIMITED PROPERLY') 124('CS124 - &DATA NOT AT BEGINNING OF LINE') 125('CS125 - NO SUCH FORMAL PARAMETER: 'A8) 126('CS126 - ZERO-LENGTH PARAMETER NAME') 127('CS127 - PARAMETER NAME TOO LONG') 131('CS131 - ZERO-LENGTH &DATA FILENAME') 132('CS132 - &DATA FILENAME TOO LONG: 'A8) 133('CS133 - UNEXPECTED END OF CONTROL STATEMENT FILE') 134('CS134 - UNEXPECTED END OF PROCEDURE FILE') 135('CS135 - ILLEGAL CHARACTER IN &DATA DSN: 'R1) 136('CS136 - &DATA CREATED DSN 'A</div><div><br></div><div>I made a short video on the subject: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfxspiZS4I" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfxspiZS4I</a></div><div>What do you think, do I start writing JCL? It looks interactive, do you suppose I can fetch CS so as to use the ! prompt?</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan Engwall<br></div></div>
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