[Info-vax] problem with COBOL installation

[John Reagan]

On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 10:06:23 AM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> Trying to install COBOL from the hobbyist distribution:
> 
> COBOL029_IGUIDE.TXT;1
> DEC-AXPVMS-COBOL-V0209-1453-1.PCSI$COMPRESSED;1
> DEC-AXPVMS-COBOL-V0209-1453-1.PCSI$COMPRESSED_ESW;1
> 
> I get
> 
> %PCSI-E-VALFAILED, validation of 
>  DSA530:[HELBIG.DOWNLOADS.HOBBYIST.COBOL_COMPILER_29]DEC-AXPVMS-COBOL-V0209-1453-1.PCSI$COMPRESSED;1 failed
> -PCSI-E-CDSA_TEXT, CSSMERR_DL_DATASTORE_DOESNOT_EXIST: The specified 
> datastore does not exist
> %PCSIUI-E-ABORT, operation terminated due to an unrecoverable error condition
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

You can use /OPTIONS=NOVALIDATE if you just want to skip the validation.  For the error itself, wasn't that part of some prior update to PCSI itself?  (Yeah, I know, how does a hobbyist get access to patches?  Above my paygrade.)