I finally discovered what the problem was with my KSAMXL/FOPEN....

That nasty old priv mode will kill ya every time......

Before my calls to FOPEN I plugged in a GETUSERMODE and lo and behold
the problem went away.


Thanks to one and all who responded to all my postings on this matter.

Brian. 

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:39:54 -0400, Brian Donaldson <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>Yep, exactly.
>
>I need to be able to pass file numbers to FREADLABEL, FWRITELABEL,
>FGETKEYINFO and also AIF's.... to name a few.
>
>The stupid standard COBOL open/read/write/rewrite/close reserved words 
>don't do anything for me.
>
>Another thing about intrinsics is that when an intrinsic fails, by calling FCHECK
>and FERRMSG you get a more sensible error message than COBOL would give 
>you. Who would know what a COBOL error 47 is without having to go look up
>the manual?
>
>Intrinsics (for me, at least) are the only way to go..........
>
>Once upon a time, in a previous lifetime I worked in an IBM shop that had a
>RISC6000/AIX box using Microfocus COBOL. I have been so used to working
>on the HP3000 for so long it was a major shock when I discovered just 
>how "stupid" that IBM box really is compared to the intelligent HP3000.
>I asked one of the IBM programmer's how I would find out what the EOF on
>a file was. "What system intrinsics do you use to get file info without having 
to 
>read thru a trillion records to get a record count?" He looked at me as if I had 
>been beamed down off the Starship Enterprise... 
>
>No system intrinsics on that box and yes, you would have to read thru 
>the file, adding one to a counter until you hit the eof.   
>
>However, that is a topic for another posting........
>
>Oh yeah, -- I didn't realize I belonged to the "old school" 
>(whatever school that is) -- Eton? Cambridge? Oxford? UCLA? :-)
>
>
>Brian.
>
>
>On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:13:51 -0400, Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Robert Mills wrote:
>>> Brian,
>>>
>>> Why are you using FOPEN and not the Cobol Open?
>>
>>I'd guess it's an old-school way of keeping a handle on the MPE filenumber.  
>COBOL didn't always (IIRC) let you use FD names to supply filenumbers to 
>intrinsics (for one), and manually doing your FOPENs/etc let you pass opened 
>files into and out of COBOL subroutines without the default open/close upon 
>subroutine entry/exit like the old-school required.
>>
>>Jeff
>>
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