Thanks for pointing out dynalloc in Cobol. A few decades since I actually
looked at these languages. In fact, The only LE programming language I've used
is C.
Do you know if companies allow the use of this feature in production? For those
that don't, how do they protect themselves against intentional abuse of
dynalloc in situations where they can gain read access to data that would
otherwise have been protected? Is it a simple code review? Or do they say it's
allowed on their Unix systems which are far less protected?
Thanks, Jon.
On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 3:13 AM, John McKown
<[email protected]> wrote:
​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
PL/I ref:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSY2V3_5.1.0/com.ibm.ent.pl1.zos.doc/pg/allodynallo.html
