PH34688: A COPY STATEMENT EMBEDDED WITHIN ANOTHER STATEMENT IS NOT CORRECTLY EXPANDED AND PARSED BY THE AD COBOL PARSER.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The COBOL parser in Application Discovery (AD) Build Client
  expands a COPY statement if it ends with a period, which is a
  correct usage of the COPY statement.  However, if the COPY
  statement is embeded within a block of statement, such as an
  EVALUATE or IF statement, the AD parser regards the period of
  the COPY statement as the end of the embedding statement and
  ignores the rest of the embedding statement, thus giving
  incorrect flowchart and program flow information.
  

Local fix

• The build decisions feature in AD Build Client can be used to
  PATTERN replace the original string of "COPY <copybook name>."
  (with a period) with "COPY <copybook name>" (without a period).
  Applying this decision, the flowchart and program flow are shown
  correctly.
  

Problem summary

• The Cobol COPY statement ends with a period. Having support for
  multiple formats of include files, the AD Cobol Compiler
  preserved the period after the expansion of copybook.
  

Problem conclusion

•  The fix consisted in removing the period that is part of COPY
  statement when the copybook is expanded. The fix will be
  available in 6.0.0.0 version.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  APPL DISCOVERY

• Fixed component ID

  5737B1600

Applicable component levels