QUASIREENTRANT attribute on COBOL programs

Products

• IDMS

Issue/Introduction

What does the QUASIREENTRANT attribute on a program's SYSGEN definition mean?

Environment

Releases: All supported releases.

Resolution

QUASIREENTRANT is an outdated concept which was only relevant for the support of VS cobol (cobol 1) programs.

This is the default for COBOL but should only be used for old VS COBOL programs which are not LE compliant. For COBOL LE compliant programs they should be defined as REENTRANT.

The sysgen reentrancy parameter for a user PROGRAM such as Cobol and Assembler will determine which program pool into which it is loaded .

 QUASIREENTRANT or NONREENTRANT parameter will cause the program to be loaded into a non-reentrant Program pool

Change the program's definition in the SYSGEN to be defined as REENTRANT so the initial load will be to a Reentrant pool.

 

 

Additional Information

PROGRAM Statement Syntax