Pro*Cobol PCO Compilation problem in Linux

Question

Hi,
DB :oracle 11g on RHEL 5.5
when we are compiling the (Pro*cobol ) PCO code it is giving us the error :
System default option values taken from: /oracle/oracle11g/app/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/precomp/admin/pcbcfg.cfg
Error at line 320, column 35 in file BR2385.PCO
WHERE A.SOC_NO = :PARAM-SOC
..................................1
PCB-S-00223, Undeclared variable "PARAM-SOC".
when we change the pcbcfg.cfg file with flag : declare_section=no it's compile without error.
But in this scenario cobol app doesn't run.
if we declare the undeclared variable in the section
EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION END-EXEC.
PARAM-SOC PIC X(25).
EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION END-EXEC.
and compile it with declare_section=yes then cobol app. run fine.
Are different files generated (cob,int,gnt) after compilation with the option declare_section=no and declare_section=yes.
Pls help us in this regards. we have lot of file which having these issue and we don't want to do manual changes "EXEC SQL BEGIN" in it.
Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

Your code is faulty and has to be fixed.
No compilation problem is present, the compiler correctly barfs.
As this is not a support forum, kindly keep your non-issues out of this forum.
Thank you!!!
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA