Viewing Error Logs

The COBOL conversion utility produces a set of error and warning logs with messages that identify nonstandard code styles and inconsistencies. The utility also logs expansion actions that may require manual review.

The utility produces the following logs:

Field or Control	Description
Exception log	This log contains warnings that occurred because of ambiguous working storage definitions. You may need to modify code or add utility directives to resolve the issues logged.
Exception BIND/SELECT log	This log contains warnings and errors that occurred because of ambiguous BIND and SETUP definitions.
Exception date log	This log lists all group-level date fields that are detected by the utility.
Summary log	This log provides general statistics regarding the number of programs that are processed.

When you specify the -4 flag, you see only the summary log. Set the -rd flag on the conversion utility command line if you want the utility to produce all of the detail logs: exception, BIND/SELECT, and exception date.

Messages from the Exception Log

The following tables summarize all of the messages that can appear in the three exception log files. Errors indicate problems that are encountered by the conversion utility.

Message	Type	Note
Non-matching conversion block found in line line number.	Error	Detected the NOCBGN directive, but couldn’t find the corresponding NOCEND.
Error in determining numeric length in line line number.	Error	Couldn’t decipher the numeric PICTURE clause.
The size of the one character array will be expanded in line line number.	Warning	Detected a one-character array where the field contains the string -BYTE, -POS, or -CHAR.
A one-character array is found in line number. The conversion routine will expand this to PIC X(3).	Warning	None.
Unable to find the copy library copy library name.	Error	Couldn't locate the copy library file that the program references.

Messages from the Exception BIND/SELECT Log

The following table lists messages from the BIND/SELECT log:

Message	Type	Note
Didn't find the corresponding DATA section for DATA field name in line line number.	Error	Detected either a BIND-DATA or a SELECT-DATA, but cannot find the SETUP group field.
No delimiter found on group field name section in line line number.	Warning	Didn’t find a FILLER field with a value Z in a DATA or SETUP group field.
Unable to convert the group field name section due to problems reading the Copylib.	Error	Couldn't locate a copy library that DATA or SETUP references.
The group field name found in line line number has a mismatch count.	Warning and error	The number of columns in DATA doesn’t match the count for the corresponding SETUP.
Incompatible date type match for field in lineline number.	Error	The data type definition in SETUP doesn’t correspond to the data type in DATA.

Messages from the Exception Date Log

The following table lists messages from the exception date log:

Message	Type	Note
Date/time/datetime detected and will not be expanded in line.	Warning	None.
Verify if a date/time/datetime field in line number: line number.	Warning	Found a character-type field or group field with a total length of 10, 15, or 26 that could be a date, time, or datetime.