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by **bravedreamer** » Mon Mar 19, 2018 1:48 pm

Hi there,

actually we have activated the compile parameters TEST(NOHOOK,SEPARATE,EJPD),NOOPT in our test-environment for every program that is touched (COBOL compiler 4.2.0, z/os 2.2).
Before placing the program in production we are compiling the code without the parameters.
Obviously this is suboptimal. For one reason, we are putting code in production that is not tested and for the other reason, we are doing work that is not really necessary (recompiling).

So, the question is how big is the performance impact if move the program WITH the test parameters in production?
Is there any improvement if we use a more updated version of the compiler?

by **prino** » Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:24 am

You do not put NOOPT programs in production, ever.

by **bravedreamer** » Tue Mar 20, 2018 8:50 pm

Okay, thanks for the hint.

Actually we have the compiler version 4.2.0. I've seen that in compiler version 5 IBM has changed some parameter.
I thought that maybe the indication of NOOPT is obsolete.

by **Robert Sample** » Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:58 pm

I thought that maybe the indication of NOOPT is obsolete.

Yes and no. NOOPT is deprecated in version 5 of the Enterprise COBOL compiler. HOWEVER, it is replaced by OPTIMIZE(0) which is what is used if you specify NOOPT in this version of the compiler.

by **Robert Sample** » Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:47 pm

For performance of Enterprise COBOL 4.2, have you reviewed http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27018287&aid=1 yet? If not, it is a good document to read. Page 8 has

Performance considerations using TEST:
|On the average, TEST(HOOK) was 20% slower than NOTEST, with a range of equivalent to 265%
|slower when not producing a CEEDUMP.

|On the average, TEST(HOHOOK) was equivalent to NOTEST when not producing a CEEDUMP.

|On the average, TEST(NOHOOK,NOSEPARATE) resulted in a 339% increase in the object module
|size compared to using NOTEST or TEST(NOHOOK,SEPARATE), with a range of 158% larger to
|545% larger.

|One program with a large data division (about 1 million items) using TEST(NOHOOK) took 330 times
|more CPU time to produce a CEEDUMP with COBOL's formatted variables compared to using
|NOTEST to produce a CEEDUMP without COBOL's formatted variables

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