On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:50:27 -0400, "Black, Cory" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>I'll preface this by saying that the RC and Robelle have been working
>diligently on these, but being the patient person that I am, I'm also
>posting them here.
>
>We upgraded our test box, a 959, from 5.5.4 to 6.0.1 and had several batch
>programs stop working.  There are 2 problems.  First, a load module that
>came over from a 958 in 1995 stopped working with an uncovered lock error
>message. I added displays to give the RC the return status from DBLOCK and
>DBUPDATE and recompiled the program, but the problem persists.
>
>Second, Speed Demon is causing an illegal ascii digit.  A display added
>immediately after the call to Speed Demon does not appear.  Substituting a
>DBGET will get the program working again.
>
>Any ideas on how to resolve these problems are welcome.
>

Just a guess, of course, but any chance that a "SETVAR COBRUNTIME" got
changed or lost from a logon UDC?  I could see where both problems could
be caused by this, assuming that they are in fact NM COBOL programs.

Steve