Hi all, I'm looking for help regarding Cobol programming language.
I found some old sources from the late 80s, which were compiled with mbp cobol (that doesn't exist anymore, right?). So I recompiled them using openCobol IDE. But during the execution there's an error alert saying SCRNOPEN library wasn't found. Probably it's a library from the old compiler. How can I solve this?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Not sure what mbp cobol is. The first step would be to check what happens when you simply have a dummy. Just create an empty COBOL module with the name/program-id SCRNOPEN and compile it, too [if there aren't too many places: it would be better to add an ON EXCEPTION CONTINUE to the CALL] - if you find out what the system library should do you can add it to the created dummy COBOL module later.
Then have a look what the program does afterwards.
Despite the sources you may need additional files the program want to access (leading to another runtime error).
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Hi all, I'm looking for help regarding Cobol programming language.
I found some old sources from the late 80s, which were compiled with mbp cobol (that doesn't exist anymore, right?). So I recompiled them using openCobol IDE. But during the execution there's an error alert saying SCRNOPEN library wasn't found. Probably it's a library from the old compiler. How can I solve this?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Not sure what mbp cobol is. The first step would be to check what happens when you simply have a dummy. Just create an empty COBOL module with the name/program-id
SCRNOPENand compile it, too [if there aren't too many places: it would be better to add anON EXCEPTION CONTINUEto theCALL] - if you find out what the system library should do you can add it to the created dummy COBOL module later.Then have a look what the program does afterwards.
Despite the sources you may need additional files the program want to access (leading to another runtime error).