On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Wissink, Brad [ITSYS] <[email protected]>wrote:
> We are using this information for logging and audit purposes. We are > creating an interface program that may be called by hundreds of other > programs. We were looking for a simple way to log which program called the > interface program just in case that type of information would be needed if > the interface program abended or had problems. > Brad, Question about the logging function mentioned above. How will the audit and logging data be saved? Will you be writing to disk or passing a buffer to a logging address space? Sam > > Brad Wissink > Information Technology Services > Iowa State University > 515-294-3088 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Comstock > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 3:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CEETBCK and LE conforming assembler > > On 1/28/2011 2:14 PM, Wissink, Brad [ITSYS] wrote: > > I think I am after #1. Cobol program A dynamically calls Cobol program > B. Now I need a way for Cobol Program B to find out it was called by Cobol > program A. I was going to use CEETBCK to do this. > > > > Brad Wissink > > Information Technology Services > > Iowa State University > > 515-294-3088 > > > I don't know if you have any say in the matter, but this > is a really bad design. Presumably program B intends to > work differently if called by program A. There are really > two ways to do this correctly: 1) have the calling parameters > for invoking program B contain some kind of a processing > indicator; or, 2) create two separate programs and call the > correct one from the calling program. > > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-393-8716 > http://www.trainersfriend.com > > * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! > + Training your people is an excellent investment > > * Try our new tool for calculating your Return On Investment > for training dollars at > http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
