Converting non-S procedures

Non-S procedures cannot use the capabilities of SDF-P unless they are converted.

The conversion of non-S procedures to S procedures can be carried out in steps. Steps 1 to 6 are used only in order for the (former) non-S procedures to run as S procedures.

With SDF-CONV, automatic conversion of non-S procedures to S procedures is possible (PROCEDURE-FORMAT operand). Options which can be specified for this procedure are: whether the input procedure’s command language should be retained, or should be converted into the SDF command language; whether data lines are to be converted to statement lines; and whether the output from SDF commands in the converted procedure may be in blocked form. (For further details see the “SDF-CONV” manual [17].)