Re: QCMDEXC

[Howard Weatherly <hweatherly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon, I believe Dyanna has noticed that the messages are not appearing on "her
screen" but going to the message queue which is unlike the mainframe in that the
initiator is the place where messages go. The mainframe has no message queue
object!

Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:

> Dyanna,
>
> I don't know where you are getting your information from but  "Noticed Cobol 
>on
> the AS/400 does not support display statements like on the mainframe." where 
>did
> you notice this ?  COBOL/400 supports ANSI '85 - ANSI '85 mandates the Display
> statement - I use it all the time.
>
> COBOL/400 does also provide a low-level version of the screen I-O via the
> Display statement - is that confusing you?
>
> There are _very_ few things that COBOL/400 does not support that mainframe 
>COBOL
> does - most of them platform specific or where the mainframe version breaks 
>the
> ANSI rules and compatibility with the "broken" rules could not be achieved.
> There are many, many things that COBOL/400 does support (externally described
> files, direct display and printer file support, the LIKE keyword for data
> definition etc.) that mainframe COBOL can't hold a candle to.
>
> Maybe your company could use some COBOL/400 training - I just happen to know a
> couple of people <vbg>
>
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