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- Date: 3 December 1985
- Number: 122
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- Title:Two problems in the RM/COBOL 2.0+ Novell Runtime.
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- Two problems have been discovered in all versions of the Novell
- RM/COBOL Runtimeversion 2.0 and above.
-
- The first problem is in the patching of RUNCOBOL.RUN with the
- RMCONFIG UTILITY(RMCNFG.COB). This process disables the
- multi-user flag. This flag can bere-enabled by changing address 6F0F
- from 00 to 01 in "RUNCOBOL.RUN" by using the RMPATCH UTILITY
- "RMPTCH.COB". This patch will return the runtime to multiuser use.
- (This patch can also be performed using the DOS DEBUG utility at
- address 700F.)
-
- The second problem has to do with the DOS return code not being
- correctly returned upon completion of the program. The DOS return
- code can be set by the COBOL statement:
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- STOP RUN <n>
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- Where <n> is the value of the return code. This value is useful if
- execution of the program was initiated from a batch file, and the
- result of program execution is used to determine the branch of
- further execution. This capability is made available through the DOS
- batch file command:
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- IF ERROR LEVEL <n> <command>
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- The initial release of RM/COBOL version 2.0+ does not allow for the
- DOS return code to be passed back properly. A new version of the
- file "RCOBOL.COM" isavailable to correct this problem. It can be
- ordered from Novell under the following part number: 125-13-001. Use
- this update for all versions of the Novell RM/COBOL runtime 2.0 and
- above.
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- The complete release diskette is also being modified to include this
- correction.
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