Steve, thanks very much for the exhaustive resume of cobol call options.
I am looking for a way to use dynamic and dlls calls together from one load module. This is possible by linking with DYNAM and calling the DLL explicitly with dllload. Of course, for DLLs that export lots of functions, this means a lot of code. But the great advantage of DLLs is that you can export more than one function and the system does the linkage. So with dllload the DLL advantage comes at a high cost, not to forget, that you have to unload the DLL, too. So, I was looking into the second option given in http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IGY3PG30/4.3.7.2?SHELF=&DT=20050628164603 I quote: "Put the COBOL DLL programs that you want to call from the COBOL non-DLL programs in the load module that contains the main program. Use static calls from the COBOL non-DLL programs to call the COBOL DLL programs." So, I guess this means you have to statically link a DYNAM linked cobol program A to a DLL linked cobol program B together into a load module AB. This should somehow require three link steps: 1) link A with DYNAM option 2) link B with DLL option 3) link the results of 1) and 2) statically together into AB But, I don't know how to do that. Thank you, Jürgen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
