PH28232: CICS TRANSLATOR NEEDS TO BE UPDATED TO SUPPORT COBOL FLOATING COMMENTS.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Floating comments cause a DFH7035I error to be issued by the
  CICS translator.
  Floating comments were added to COBOL V5.1, and this allowed
  you to add a comment to ANY line by
  prefixing the comment text with '*>'
  .
  But when the code has a floating comment which contains a
  single apostrophe, translation generates message DFH7035I
  and breaks the COBOL source by adding superfluous quotes
  to the next source line.
  .
  For example, see this line of COBOL source:
   *> A single apostrophe here SHOULDN'T be a problem
  suffers the problem.
  Changing that line of COBOL source to:
   *> A single apostrophe here SHOULD NOT be a problem
  bypasses the problem and allows for successful translation
  and no message DFH7035I.
  

Local fix

• Remove the single quote / apostrophe from Cobol source.
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS users.                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Floating comments cause a msgDFH7035I   *
  *                      error to be issued by the CICS          *
  *                      translator.                             *
  ****************************************************************
  Attempts to translate a CICS COBOL program which has
  floating comments, indicated by the characters *>
  may fail because the CICS translator parses the COBOL
  statement incorrectly.
  

Problem conclusion

• The CICS translator has been updated to support COBOL floating
  comments.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

• ×**** PE21/11/01 FIX IN ERROR. SEE APAR PH41716  FOR DESCRIPTION
  

APAR Information

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

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

  UI72894 UI72895 UI72896

Modules/Macros

• DFHECM14 DFHEDM14 DFHEPM14
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V5

• Fixed component ID

  5655Y0400

Applicable component levels

• R100 PSY UI72896

     UP20/12/07 P F012

• R200 PSY UI72895

     UP20/12/07 P F012

• R300 PSY UI72894

     UP20/12/11 P F012

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