Re: RPG/COBOL with embedded CL

["Dennis Lovelady" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Colin:

>I have often thought, if IBM allowed CL program commands to be embedded
>in their HLL's, they would make development a lot quicker, allowing
>development of HLL programs without the overhead of having to wrap  them
>in a CL control program to perform any sort of housekeeping/error
>capture.
>Anyone else got any thoughts on this.

You can do this.  The QCMDEXC program, callable from any HLL (or even from
CL, but why would you?), can be used to execute CL commands anywhere within
your program.  Also, with ILE, you can now create modules in CL that are
callable from your other ILE HLL programs, making the task simpler yet.

HTH
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