On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:35:40 -0500, Craig Kittendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, > I've done this before but can't get it to work now. I'm trying to pass an >EXEC PARM field to a batch COBOL program. I have the following: > > LINKAGE SECTION. > 01 LS-PARM. > 05 LS-PARM-DATA-LENGTH PIC 9(04) BINARY. > 05 LS-PARM-DATA PIC X(100). >PROCEDURE DIVISION USING LS-PARM. > DISPLAY ' ParmLen: ' LS-PARM-DATA-LENGTH. > >//STEP1 EXEC PGM=JDCXXXX,REGION=4M,PARM='JFIPJFIA' > >The parm length always displays as 1036 ( x'040C') and ls-parm-data is also >garbage. Guess I'm too tired to see what I'm missing. Try PARM='/DATAHERE'. This has to do with COBOL runtime options. But I can never remember if user parm data follows or proceeds the slash. OTOH, 040C looks eerily like the contents of address 0 (one of the PSW fields). Shouldn't LE setup, if there's no parm, point R1 -> A(DUMMY) where DUMMY DC H'0'? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
