DOCUMENT:Q177011 05-APR-2000 [sna] TITLE :Generated COBOL Will Not Compile PRODUCT :Microsoft SNA Server PROD/VER:WINDOWS:1.0 OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS:kberrmsg kbprogramming ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft COM Transaction Integrator for CICS and IMS, version 1.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPTOMS ======== When you use the Component Builder (CB) to create a component library (.tlb) file manually (this is, without using the Import COBOL Wizard), you can define a method with parameters in an order that prevents COBOL generated by the CB COBOL Export facility from compiling properly. If there are two or more parameters that are arrays whose actual counts depend on the value of other parameters, those actual count parameters must appear before the first array. RESOLUTION ========== The solution to this problem is to use CB to arrange the parameters in the following order COUNT1 COUNT2 ARRAY1 ARRAY2 and then regenerate the COBOL using the COBOL Export facility. MORE INFORMATION ================ Example ------- You generate a component library with the following four parameters: Count1 (integer) Array1 (anything) Count2 (integer) Array2 (anything) The generated COBOL would be similar to this: 01 DFHCOMMAREA. 05 COUNT1 PIC S9(4) COMP. INOUT 05 ARRAY1 OCCURS 10 TIMES INOUT DEPENDING ON COUNT1 OF DFHCOMMAREA PIC S9(9) COMP. 05 COUNT2 PIC S9(4) COMP. INOUT 05 ARRAY2 OCCURS 10 TIMES INOUT DEPENDING ON COUNT2 OF DFHCOMMAREA PIC S9(9) COMP. This COBOL produces the following error message when compiled on MVS: 115 IGYGR1137-S "OCCURS DEPENDING ON" object "COUNT2" was defined in a variably located area. Execution results will be unpredictable. Additional query words: Customer Information Control System (CICS) Management (IMS) ====================================================================== Keywords : kberrmsg kbprogramming Technology : kbAudDeveloper kbCOMTISearch kbCOMTI100 Version : WINDOWS:1.0 Hardware : ALPHA x86 Issue type : kbprb ============================================================================= THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. MICROSOFT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY. Copyright Microsoft Corporation 2000.