RE: COBOL user-defined functions

Ooops...sorry, I misread your post.

I inquired on UDF's a few years ago with a member of the Cobol team
(Cindy Lee) but there didn't appear to be any internal support. She
was going to poll the COBOL community on the iSeriesNetwork forums
but never got around to it...don't know what happened to her...

Last I knew, most of the newer stuff was being added to the Cobol
compiler on the AIX platform.

You might want to inquire at the Cobol Cafe on the DeveloperWorks
forum:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/community/cafe/cobol.html

Terry

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stone, Joel
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Subject: RE: COBOL user-defined functions

Thanks, but I am inquiring about USER-DEFINED functions, not
ibm defined functions.

In RPG and all other modern widely-used languages,
user-defined functions are the cornerstone of what makes the
language popular and powerful - ie users can create their own
commands to utilize.

Why doesn't COBOL/400 or COBOL/ILE support used defined
functions? Is it just being left to die? Or is there some
reason that it doesn't??


-----Original Message-----
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The V5R4 Reference Manual is located here. See Chapter 15 -
Intrinsic Functions

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/bo
oks/sc092539.pdf

Terry

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stone, Joel
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 10:12 AM
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Subject: COBOL user-defined functions

Does COBOL/400 or COBOL /ILE support user-defined functions
in any fashion (like RPG and all other modern languages)?

For example,

Move DayOfWeek(Date-input) to print-line

Where DayOfWeek is a user-defined function returning "Monday"
or "Tuesday" or etc.

If not, why not?

Thanks!

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