PH09828: INCONSISTENT OCCURRENCE OF "ERROR [104] : ERROR WHILE COLLECTING PROGRAM SEMANTICS" FOR SOME COB

APAR status

• Closed as fixed if next.

Error description

• When building certain Cobol programs, "Error [104] : Error
  while collecting program semantics" may or may not happen.
  When this happens, the build is not complete and the data
  related to the failed programs is not stored in the project
  repository database.  If this happens during Validation, the
  Validation Report is not generated. The mystery is that the
  build result is not consistent even though the same programs
  are build repeatedly--some times this error happens and other
  times it doesn't happen.
  
  The programs showing this behavior also show syntax errors in
  build where some variables are replaced by this kind of
  statement:
  COPY <copybook> REPLACING <variable> BY <value>.
  in which the variable name specified in the program does not
  match the corresponding variable name written in the copybook.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• Fix consisted in removing some unhandled error nodes (resulting
  from syntax errors) from the abstract syntax tree.
  Fix will be available on version 5.1.0.2.
  

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Modules/Macros

• Build
  

Fix information

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