missing End-Try swallows tail of program

[Austin1]

It appears that in the following managed console program, if there is no run-time exception, "swallows" up the tail end of the program if the End-Try is missing.  There appear to be no warnings, etc., when the program is compiled.

   $set checkdiv"ENTCOBOL".

    program-id. Program1 as "cblTestTryCatch1.Program1".

   * You can use the CHECKDIV"ENTCOBOL" directive so that you get an division by zero error returned.

   * Adding an ON SIZE ERROR would also allow you to handle the error in your code.

   * The $set directive shown above accomplishes this.

    data division.

    working-storage section.

    01 Junk Pic X.

    01 A Pic 9 value 1.

    01 B Pic 9 value 1.

    01 C Pic 9 value 2.

    procedure division.

        Declare Exception1 as type Exception

        Try

             Compute C = B / A

             Display "C = ", C

        Catch Exception1

             Display Exception1::Message

   *    End-Try.

        Display "End of program..."

        Accept Junk

        goback.

    end program Program1.

[RobertSales]

Hi Austin1, you have to use the NOIMPLICITSCOPE directive in order to get warnings in this situation.  I would tend to agree that this should be the default...

[lanter-edv_ch · Accepted solution]

Remember that conditional statements in Cobol can also be terminated by a full stop which is the old standard. You can use “Display Exception1:Message.” The example has a full stop after goback so all statements are taken as part of the Catch clause.

[Austin1]

OK, let me check that out.

Can you give me the exact syntax of the $set directive for this "NOIMPLICITSCOPE"?

Also, apparently (?) may need the exact syntax of the $set directive for the "WARNINGS(3)" or WARNINGS"3"?

[RobertSales · Accepted solution]

Should be just:

     $set NOIMPLICITSCOPE WARNINGS(2)

[Austin1]

OK, thanks.  That worked - it caused a blue squiggly line under the period on the goback statement, and hovering over this, it said "COBCH1227 : Scope terminator END-TRY generated implicitly" and on a Rebuild it did list this as a warning message in the output window.

Time to move on to more important items, I'm sure everyone agrees.

Thanks