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 COBOL400
I get the following message MCH3601 (pointer not set for loacation referenced) when calling a Cobol program from another Cobol program, passing 4 paramters.However this abend happens on the second call to this program as the first call was sucessful.Can anyone help me.

It fails after open statment.even i am not able to check the file status also.After open statment it quits from the program and shows me above mentioned message. 



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ASKED: June 4, 2012  12:38 PM
UPDATED: June 5, 2012  12:33 AM

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There is no way to tell yet. Please show:

  • The CALL statement that fails,
  • The Working Storage definitions of the parameters,
  • The Linkage Section definitions from the called program, and
  • The Procedure Division using… statement from the called program.

Thank you.

Tom

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