Hey Joe,
Are you going back to school to learn COBOL ? :-)
I had to do a little COBOL a couple years back when writing examples for
our RPG2SQL product. Quite an experience since the IBM docs are pretty
light on meat :-)
In answer to your question I think the linkage gets passed in as a big
blob and you can break down the parms into a data structure.
The program we wrote is actually using our RPG2SQL Integrator Service
program.
If you download the RPG2SQL product and install it, we include a COBOL
sample if you need a reference sample.
Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc.
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message: 1
date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:13:11 -0500
from: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
midrange.com
