Re: create a COBOL ILE module with exportable procedures

The simple answer is - you can't.

In designing the ILe COBOL compiler an attempt was made to come up with a design that would have allowed this while maintaining ANSI and IBM COBOL compatibility. We were unable to come up with a practical workable approach.

At the time I had hoped that there would be enough demand from COBOL shops to "do something" that some solution (probably multiple compile units in one source but resulting in a single module - or an extension to the nested program model - or using a "flavor" of OO COBOL) but as far as I know no one ever asked for it and so we are stuck with it.


Jon P.

On Apr 8, 2023, at 8:43 PM, Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I do this all the time in RPGLE.
A *module with *nomain, and many exportable procedures that can be compiled
into a *srvpgm.

How and what is the syntax to do this same concept with COBOL?

Does anyone have any examples?

google turned up nothing... the IBM i COBOL ILE guide is ok, but no real
examples on how to do this.

All I would need to see is the code to the module source with at least 2
different exportable procedures in it. From there I'm sure I can figure
out the rest on how to compile to *srvpgm and be called by other ILE
languages.

tia

Jay
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