In fact, I have a whole set of them to assist COBOL programmers.   ;-)

BITMAN           ASM      Bit Manipulation Routine
DTEMAN           ASM      Date Manipulation Routine
HEXMAN           ASM      Hex Manipulation Routine
LIBMAN           ASM      Vse/librarian Manager
NUMMAN           ASM      Number Manipulation Routine
PRTMAN           ASM      Cics Print Manager
RTCMAN           ASM      Return Code Manager
TXTMAN           ASM      Text Manipulation Routine

Sincerely,
Dave Clark


On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM David Clark <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, and (my) VSE does have my BITMAN subroutine that allows COBOL
> programmers to twiddle bits in COBOL.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dave Clark
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 1:57 PM Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> But, VSE does have:
>> CEESICLR—Bit Clear
>> CEESISET—Bit Set
>> CEESISHF—Bit Shift
>> CEESITST—Bit Test
>>
>> Although, I rather use my own simpler callable assembler routines that
>> don't have the LE overhead. But, to be fair, Your talking halfwords that
>> can easily be handled in a small cobol copybook procedure.
>>
>> Tony Thigpen
>> President
>> Thigpen Enterprises
>>
>> David Clark wrote on 2/13/26 1:28 PM:
>> >>>   Well, Enterprise COBOL V6.x now has functions...
>> >
>> > Cheers for Enterprise COBOL.  We have VSE COBOL.   ;-)
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> >
>> > Dave Clark
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