Server Express--How do you get COBOL source expanded before precompile w/procob?

Right now, the DBA has set up the following script:

#!/bin/ksh
cp $1 $1.pco
make -f procob.mk build SHAREDLIBPATH= EXE=x$1 COBS=$1.cob

The procob.mk looks like it is the standard makefile supplied by Oracle.  Where and how do I put in precompiler directives like CP?

You must use the cobsql precompiler interface to pro*cobol in  order to be able to expand the copybooks using cp prior to the programs being precompiled by pro*cobol.

If you are precompiling by executing procob directly then you cannot do this.

The command that must be executed would look something like the following:

cobol example1.pco preprocess(cobsql) cstop csp cobsqltype=oracle preprocess(cp) endp;

Thanks.

Chris the syntax of what you suggested will not work in the Unix (Solaris) environment.  I tried this in bash, ksh, etc.  It does not like the preprocess() statements in the line saying "syntax error near unexpected token `('.   Since I had not heard an answer relatively quickly on the forum, I've opened a support incident.  Dennis is researching it and has not gotten back to me yet.

You have to escape or quote the parentheses characters in any shell that treats them as operators - just as with any other UNIX command line. It's also a good idea to escape or quote terms containing the equals sign, in case you're using an sh-derived shell with the "keyword" option set.

For example:

  cobol example1.pco 'preprocess(cobsql)' cstop csp 'cobsqltype=oracle' 'preprocess(cp)' endp;

or

  cobol example1.pco preprocess\\(cobsql\\) cstop csp cobsqltype\\=oracle preprocess\\(cp\\) endp;

This is standard UNIX shell use. See the man page for your shell of choice for more information.