RE: the word 'static'

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Indicators are static by definition.

Don't you mean "global?"

I always thought that "static" meant that the subprocedure has local storage
for the variable; storage that is untouched by any other parts of the
program and is not re-initialised each time the procedure is called.  They
live only in THAT procedure and survive across CALLP boundaries.  

Global variables also survive across CALLP boundaries, but that's because no
subprocedure owns them.  Any line of code can manipulate them, subprocedure
or mainline.

Response indicators (like CF03 03 'Exit') are global and live until the next
READ operation sets them.  This doesn't change with subprocedures because
there's no way to define a local version of an indicator.

Buck 
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