compiling on hp-3000 question 1

[treviboy]

hi,
I don't know if this is the correct forum, but I compiled a program , or tried to , on HP-3000 and I got this error:
UNABLE TO OPEN FILE COBTEXT , NONEXISTENT GROUP
fserr51. I haven't worked on an HP in years, so I am totally lost. What does this mean?

thanks !

 

[smah]

'group' on this system is similar to a directory. So without knowing what you're doing, something is calling a file COBTEXT in a group that doesn't exist.

LISTGROUP will give you the names of the groups available in the account that you're signed on to.

In whatever command or program that you're running, look for something referring to COBTEXT.SOMEGROUP

For example, using a known group (from the LISTGROUP command above), to list files in a different group, you issue a command like: LISTFILE @.SOMEGROUP

@ is a wildcard similar to the DOS *

 

[3gm]

You likely don't have the proper UDCs set up for COBOL compiles. COBTEXT is the file equation the compiler opens to read your COBOL source.

Regards,

Glenn