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Ramesh:<br />
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Dave has already given the correct answer and can provide details about it. I'm just filling the subject in.<br />
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To start, you only have RTVCLSRC for OPM CL, not for ILE CL. And you only have RTVCLSRC if it was enabled when the program was created.<br />
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Similarly for COBOL or RPG or any other language, you can only retrieve the source from the compiled program if it was enabled when the program was created. For COBOL, this would only done for ILE COBOL and done by specifying a DBGVIEW() option such as *LIST or *ALL so that the compilier listing itself gets stored with the program object.<br />
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The alternative is a commercial decompiler.<br />
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In other words, if a program wasn't created so that it held the source (even CL), then the source isn't there.<br />
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Tom<br />

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Ramesh:

Dave has already given the correct answer and can provide details about it. I'm just filling the subject in.

To start, you only have RTVCLSRC for OPM CL, not for ILE CL. And you only have RTVCLSRC if it was enabled when the program was created.

Similarly for COBOL or RPG or any other language, you can only retrieve the source from the compiled program if it was enabled when the program was created. For COBOL, this would only done for ILE COBOL and done by specifying a DBGVIEW() option such as *LIST or *ALL so that the compilier listing itself gets stored with the program object.

The alternative is a commercial decompiler.

In other words, if a program wasn't created so that it held the source (even CL), then the source isn't there.

Tom


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My client uses a tool retrieve COBOL source with a object.<br />
In CL we have RTVCLSRC to retrive the CL source from object created.<br />
Please let me know if there is any tool to get the COBOL source from an object.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Ramesh
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My client uses a tool retrieve COBOL source with a object.
In CL we have RTVCLSRC to retrive the CL source from object created.
Please let me know if there is any tool to get the COBOL source from an object.

Thanks,
Ramesh

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COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) is a programming language with English-like syntax. It is readable but verbose compared to other programming languages. CODASYL (Conference on Data Systems Languages) created COBOL in 1959 based on design work from Grace Hopper. It was standardized in 1968. COBOL is still present in large-scale batch processing and transaction processing where legacy applications are being used, usually in government, financial, and administrative systems.