RE: Subfiles in COBOL

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, folks, with a little help from my friends (special thanks to Bruce and
Jon), it turns out that I can indeed program a subfile in COBOL.

And then, once I got past a little issue with wiping out my working storage,
I managed to actually get a COBOL subfile program up and running in a
browser with really not a lot of modification.  The PSC/400 runtime works
just as well with COBOL as with RPG, and that's pretty darned cool.

The trick of course will be to figure out how to do this automagically with
a conversion program, but that's another story for another day.  I will say
this: the period is the single most frightening punctuation mark I have ever
met <grin>.  So small, yet so significant.  Not unlike the semicolon in C
and its derivatives, but maybe even a little harder to spot.

Anyway, thanks again, everyone!  On to the next stage...

P.S. Here are a couple of links to rather complex subfile examples from IBM:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QBKAQB01/4.5.6.4
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QBKAQB01/4.5.6.5


Joe Pluta
www.plutabrothers.com