Dear Posters, 

Is anyone aware of an easy way of making the HP3000 cobol compiler
search a series of MPE groups in order to find a copylib module.

At present our programs use....

    COPY CFDB01. 
    COPY CFTONY OF COPYUTS.  

And our compile scripts issue some file equates before compiling the
program  ....

FILE COPYLIB=COPYNEW4.LIB
FILE COPYUTS=COPYUTS4.LIB
COB85XL SCPROG,,,etc 

The above is standard MPE resolution of copylibrary modules via COPYLIB
KSAM files (and has been discussed many times before on this list). 

However,  what we would like to be able to do is issue some more generic
"PATH" variable....

E.g. 

SETVAR COPYPATH="TONY.DEVELOP,LIB.DEVELOP,LIB.SYS" 

And then let the compiler find the relevant copylib modules from the
search path - with the requirement that if a module exists in multiple
locations then it will choose the first one that it finds !    E.g.  If
CFDB01 existed in both COPYLIB.TONY and COPYLIB.LIB then it would use
the .TONY version first. 

The reasoning behind my question is to prepare us for migration whilst
trying to support business as usual development.    What we're trying to
do is deploy the changes to our HP3000 development environment ahead of
formally migrating to Acucobol and Acubench.   

The fall-back position is to retain the status quo on the HP3000 and
split the KSAM copylibraries as they are migrated over to the new
environment (this procedure is proven).  However, I'm a bear with a
small brain and want to use the same procedure regardless of our
development environment. 

Regards to all. 




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