We have recently started seeing more use of CPU on our mainframes. One of the reasons is high CPU time used by compilation. We have instructions like these:
The bold part above, is that a common problem with COBOL 6.2?You should not need to compile production version of program to get it loaded to a test region. The only reason to compile is to ready the program for Xpediter. If the program is having DB2 bind issues when pointing to PROD, this can be fixed without recompiling the program. That said, sometimes you just can’t get it sorted without recompiling.
Please use compiling of production programs sparingly as there is a system cost and impact performance.