Hi Tim,
COBOL has support for changing data areas:
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
SPECIAL-NAMES.
DATA-AREA AS MY-DTAARA.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 DTAARA-DATA PIC X(256).
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
...
DISPLAY DTAARA-DATA UPON MY-DTAARA
FOR "MYDTAARA" IN LIBRARY "QGPL".
ACCEPT DTAARA-DATA FROM MY-DTAARA
FOR "MYDTAARA" IN LIBRARY "QGPL".
hth,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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From: "Tim Truax" <truax@telerama.com>
> It's a COBOL program... I must've been goofy to not include that tidbit!
> Before going too far with this, you might want to see if maybe your HLL
> has native support for data areas. I know that RPG does.... but you
> didn't say which language the HLL program is written in.
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