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ND-210177J02 — COBOL-85 for ND-500/5000, version J02

Status: VERIFIED (real install :MODE files decoded from the floppy; not yet run live) · Install source: [MODE]

Field Value
Part number 210177J02
Base product ND-210177
Version J02
Release date files dated 1987-04 through 1987-12-21
CPU target ND-500 / ND-5000
OS requirement unknown

Description

Bundles the COBOL-85 compiler domain, its runtime library, and the "IS-MULTI" ISAM multiuser supervisor process onto one floppy — all with real, decoded Linkage-Loader mode files.

Distribution media

Floppy volume Contents
210177J02-XX-01D DESCRIPTION-FILE:DESC (8 pages) · COBOL-500-J02:LINK/:DSEG/:PSEG (8/49/92 pages) — the compiler domain · COBOL-LIB-J02:NRF (139 pages, runtime library) · COBOL-LIB-J02:MODE (decoded below) · IS-MULTI-K00:NRF (1 page) + IS-MULTI-K00:MODE (decoded below) · ISAM-SERVICE-K01:PROG (81 pages), ISAM-INTER-K01:PROG (58 pages) — ISAM add-on programs (product ND-10343) · SCRATCH-SEG-01:LINK/:DSEG/:PSEG (empty placeholders), user FLOPPY-USER

Confirmed by downloading the image (MD5 7ac060f5f683d8504ef735abd8c56479) and reading with ndtool -t/-x.

Installation procedure

Two real :MODE files were extracted and decoded (same technique as the CC-100 install scripts: SINTRAN packs these command files with the high bit set on every byte; byte & 0x7F recovers plain text — confirmed clean, no artifacts). Both are Linkage-Loader batch scripts. [MODE]

COBOL-LIB-J02:MODE — decoded verbatim

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@ COBOL-LIB-J02:MODE                                              @@
@@ Example mode file to define the COBOL library as a LINK library @@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

@Linkage-Loader
Abort-Batch-On-Error  Off
Release-Domain        COBOL-LIB-J02
Delete-Domain         COBOL-LIB-J02
Abort-Batch-On-Error  On
Set-Domain            "COBOL-LIB-J02"
Common-Segment-Number 20d                   cc
Common-Segment-Open   "MULTI-IS-K00",wcd    cc
Define-Common         IsPool,40000,4        cc This sequence may
Define-Common         IsParam,10,40004      cc be omitted if the
Define-Common         IsHeadFil,4,40014     cc multiuser facility
Define-Common         IsHeadRec,4,40020     cc is not to be used.
Define-Common         IsRecArr,2000,40024   cc
Common-Segment-Close                        cc
Set-Segment-Number    21d  cc Or some other segment > 20d
Open-Segment          "COBOL-LIB-J02",wcp
Total-Segment-Load    COBOL-LIB-J02
Total-Segment-Load    EXCEPT-LIB
Close-Segment         21d
End-Domain
Exit
(cc is the Linkage-Loader's trailing-comment marker, matching the %/' comment conventions already documented for XMSG .INCL files elsewhere in this repo — a different tool, same idea.)

IS-MULTI-K00:MODE — decoded verbatim

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@ IS-MULTI-K:MODE                                  @@
@@ Mode file to create a shared link data segment,  @@
@@ to supervice an IS multiuser process.            @@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

@Linkage-Loader
Abort-Batch-On-Error Off
Release-Domain       IS-MULTI-K00
Clear-Domain         IS-MULTI-K00
Delete-Domain        IS-MULTI-K00
Abort-Batch-On-Error On
Set-Domain          "IS-MULTI-K00"
Set-Segment-Number   20d
Open-Segment        "IS-MULTI-K00",wcd
Total-Segment-load   IS-MULTI-K00
Close-Segment        20d
End-Domain
Exit

Reading of the scripts

  1. IS-MULTI-K00:MODE runs first — it creates a shared common data segment (segment 20, named IS-MULTI-K00) that supervises the ISAM multiuser process. This must exist before COBOL-LIB-J02:MODE runs, because that script's Common-Segment-Open "MULTI-IS-K00",wcd attaches to it by name.
  2. COBOL-LIB-J02:MODE runs second — it (re)creates the COBOL-LIB-J02 domain, opens the shared common segment from step 1 and defines five named commons inside it (IsPool, IsParam, IsHeadFil, IsHeadRec, IsRecArr — explicitly optional "if the multiuser facility is not to be used"), then opens its own segment 21 and does a Total-Segment-Load of both COBOL-LIB-J02 (the library itself) and EXCEPT-LIB (a COBOL exception-handling library, present by name only — not a file on this floppy, so it must already exist elsewhere on the target system).
  3. Both scripts are self-cleaning: each starts with Release-Domain/Clear-Domain/ Delete-Domain on its own target (with Abort-Batch-On-Error Off around that cleanup, since the domain won't exist on a first-time install — the same "expected NO SUCH FILE/DOMAIN on first run" pattern already documented for the Backup-System and NLL installers), then Abort-Batch-On-Error On before the real work.
  4. Run them from the ND-500 monitor, via the Linkage-Loader's own mode-file runner, in the order above: 
    @ENTER-DIRECTORY 210177J02-XX-01D,FLOPPY-DISC-1,0,
@ND-500-MONITOR
N500: LINKAGE-LOADER
NLL: MODE (210177J02-XX-01D:FLOPPY-USER)IS-MULTI-K00:MODE
NLL: MODE (210177J02-XX-01D:FLOPPY-USER)COBOL-LIB-J02:MODE
    (both scripts already @Linkage-Loader/End-Domain/Exit internally — the exact top-level invocation syntax for feeding a :MODE file to the Linkage-Loader is carried over from the generic NLL: MODE pattern documented for the Linkage-Loader itself; not independently re-verified here.)
  5. The compiler domain (COBOL-500-J02:LINK/:DSEG/:PSEG) and the ISAM programs (ISAM-SERVICE-K01:PROG, ISAM-INTER-K01:PROG) are plain files/domain segments with no accompanying :MODE script — copy them following the same recovery-path pattern already verified for the ND-500 Linkage-Loader itself (../../../INSTALL-ND-LINKAGE-LOADER-AND-BACKUP-SYSTEM.md §4a-VERIFIED).

Configuration / post-install

Presumably a DEFINE-STANDARD-DOMAIN-style step for cold-start persistence, by analogy with the NLL installer — not confirmed for this product.

Documentation

  • PD-sheet: not located
  • PI-sheet: not located for this article number
  • Manual(s): ND-60.144.3 COBOL Reference Manual

Provenance & open items

  • Source: ndtool -t/-x on the downloaded image; :MODE files decoded with the same byte & 0x7F technique verified clean on the CC-100 install scripts.
  • TODO: confirm the exact NLL: MODE <file> invocation syntax against the Linkage-Loader's own manual (ND-60.136.04A, already in this repo) rather than carrying it over from memory of the generic pattern.
  • TODO: this install has not been run live in the emulator.

Parent: ../README.md (ND-210177 product overview)