Re: Change *DTAARA from within a COBOL pgm ?

been avail since sometime in late V3 I believe.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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-----Original Message-----
From: Debbie Panco <dpanco43@ix.netcom.com>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, August 20, 2001 9:50 AM
Subject: RE: Change *DTAARA from within a COBOL pgm ?


>Bruce,
>  What version of Cobol or Cobol 400 allows the display upon
>with the ability to specify a library name?
>
>Deborah Panco
>Senior Systems Analyst / Project Leader
>United Consumer Financial Services
>dpanco43@ix.netcom.com
>440-835-6674
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]
>On Behalf Of R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
>
>      WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
>      01 data-value.
>         05 returned-packed1  pic s9(3)v9(2) packed-decimal.
>      PROCEDURE DIVISION.
>            move 345.67 to returned-packed1.
>
>            DISPLAY  data-value UPON data-area
>               FOR "DECDATA" LIBRARY "QGPL".
>
>            ACCEPT   data-value FROM data-area
>               FOR "DECDATA" LIBRARY "QGPL".
>
>===========================================================
>R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
> -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
> -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer
>
>"America is the land that fought for freedom and then
>  began passing laws to get rid of it."
>
>     - Alfred E. Neuman
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Truax <truax@telerama.com>
>To: COBOL400-L List <cobol400-L@midrange.com>
>Date: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:57 PM
>Subject: Change *DTAARA from within a COBOL pgm ?
>
>
>I have a COBOL 400 program that uses a call to QCMDEXC to change a *DTAARA
>(Data area).
>Is there a less overhead utilizing manner in which to change a *DTAARA from
>within a COBOL program than using the QCMDEXC?
>Maybe some similar way to the way RPG400 does it by using the IN opcode
then
>the OUT opcode?
>Thanks!
>Tim Truax  :-)
>
>
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