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TUX 6.5 - How to call External Program within a Service written in COBOL on AS/400? (Doc ID 767483.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 23, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Tuxedo - Version 6.5 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Information in this document applies to any platform

Goal

How to call External Program within a Service written in COBOL on AS/400?

When creating a Cobol module (first step to build a Cobol server on AS/400), you must use LINKLIT option set to *PRC
because Tuxedo Verbs are called as ILE procedure.
You must create your Cobol module using this option LINKLIT(*PRC), otherwise your server will hang when executing it.

Within your Cobol service code you might call external programs which are built as program objects (*PGM). 

If you only type the following code line :
CALL "TP3300A" USING TP3300-LK.
when building the server an error will be reported :
CMDTUX_CAT:4331: ERROR: can't execute crtpgm
No program is created !

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