Actually Roland, Programs written that way MAY fail with parms longer than 9999 (depending upon TRUNC setting). I have made a number of RCF's suggesting that code samples "like this" should change from COMP to COMP-5.
Have you seen how the current IBM documentation shows this technique? See: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/igy3pg20/3.4.4.1 "Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED] .de>... > All of our Cobol programs using the PARM will fail if the parm length exceed 32767 > > Linkage section. > 01 OsParms. > 05 OsParms-Length pic s9(4) comp. > 05 OsParms-Data. > 10 OsParms-CicsId. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
