Re: COBOL 101

Joe,

As I understand things, no, there is no %PARM capability in
ILE/Cobol - most likely because its not part of the COBOL
standard. Jon Paris would likely know more about this...

The WDS ILE/Cobol Programmers Guide seems to indicate that
mismatched parameters in the Linkage Section can occur
successfully provided you don't access a parameter that
was not passed to you ;-)

Since COBOL can accept up to a 16MB linkage section, you
might try to define a single parameter indicating the
structure of a second parameter (defined at max size).
Then you could programatically access the remaining data
based on the value passed in the first parameter. Not sure
if this would work for you, but it might be worth a try :)

Terry

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[mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:13 PM
To: 'COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400'
Subject: [COBOL400-L] COBOL 101

Okay, I figured out STRING WITH POINTER. Not too shabby;
it's a reasonable
version of VARYING fields. Unfortunately, I'm at V5R3 and
have no TRIM
function, but that's a different issue. DELIMITED does some
of what I need.

Right now, I'm trying to see if I can pass a variable number
of parameters
to COBOL. With RPG, I can specify several parameters and
then only pass the
ones I need. I can check the program status data structure
(or the %PARMS
BIF) to see how many parameters were actually passed.

Is there an equivalent function in COBOL?

Joe


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