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I agree that COBOL has some restrictions on naming etc but this
no support for passing parms to sub routines within a Cobol program.
Isn't one of them. There isn't any such support for RPG either - we use
subprocedures. The equivalent in COBOL is nested programs, and they take
parameters just as RPG subprocedures do.
Although COBOL limits the exporting of names (for reasons I don't
understand) it is actually more powerful in terms of public/global data etc.
than RPG. Within the context of one program - nested programs can
incorporate other nested programs (i.e. procedures having local procedures)
and can either share data with them or not at their discretion.
Another nice aspect of COBOL that hopefully we'll see in RPG shortly is the
ability to share files between programs (EXTERNAL files).
Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com
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