I known that most, if not all, of the IBM compilers have exits which allow a person to supply or modify both input and/or output records. I have used this with a freeware program called FLOWASM for HLASM, which allows "free form" assembler statements. What I am wondering is if anybody would really like something that has occurred to me. Instead of receiving and modifying input _records_. I would like to get a tokenized input _statement_. That is something "further down the line". Why? Because I sometimes need to modify a _statement_, but I need to look at the entire statement, not just a single record. Receiving a tokenized (parsed) statement which I could then modify would make some things much easier. One thing that I could use right now is a way to "nullify" the SUPPRESS phrase if it is on a COBOL COPY statement. The SUPPRESS phrase makes the compiler output unusable to the Compuware post processor program. And we must use that because the version of Compuware we have (and have no support for) does not support invocation via CA-Endevor release 15. At least it doesn't work correctly and CA-Endevor support indicated that it is likely a Compuware "problem". But I can envision some other "interesting" things that it could be used for. Such as enforcing some in house "you must" or "you must not" rules on programmers who may not be aware of all the issues.
Any consensus as to how desirable this might be, in general? Or am I out in the left field parking lot again? -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
