On 12/20/2017 06:13 AM, John McKown wrote:
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​Which "production" languages would that be? Enterprise COBOL and PL/I
_both_ support dynamic allocation of files.
COBOL ref:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS6SG3_6.2.0/com.ibm.cobol62.ent.doc/PGandLR/ref/rliosass.html
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Thank you for this. We have scanned the various COBOL References
trying to find dynamic allocation (files). But what we found was
that "dynamic allocation" is for STORAGE OBTAIN.
Never gave it a thought to look at ASSIGN for this.
Now, I might be able to solve a problem with an ALC module that
was written and last touched about 1988 under MVS/SP1. Making
this particular module LE friendly, RENT, AMODE(31), and G3
friendly has been painful so far. And who will be able to work on
it after those of us who know HLASM and conditional assembly are
gone?
So I have been tasked to find a solution, and here it was hiding
in the COBOL Lang REF. !?!?!
Regards,
Steve Thompson
ps. Sure hope it allows one to build concatenations... Gonna be a
lot of experimenting with this.
