He could follow the control blocks the same way the LE developers would have to figure out how to do in order to determine what the caller's program name is. Failing to design what you want is always someone else's fault. The traditional way works just fine.
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:40:17 -0500, Bill Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >John (and IBM-MAIN) > I didn't "jump in" to this thread as I never quite figured out exactly >what you wanted. (Your "trap the name" didn't tell me how or where you >wanted to do this). > >FYI, > The "traditional" way for a COBOL application program to let a "common" >subroutine know where it is being called from this time is to actually PASS >it the name of the caller - as a parameter. This assumes CALLer and CALLee >both were "designed" for this. Crude, but it works <G>. > >You might also want to have your IBM "marketing support" submit a request >and reference SHARE requirement: > > SSLNGC0313587 New LE Callable Service to get (various) Program Names > >which explicitly asked for an LE callable service that would do what you >have asked for (amount other things). > >In January 2004, IBM responded with a "RECOGNIZED" response to this - but >has not updated it since then. > >"John P Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:<LDFE349C62E3240af90A3C08A4A8B3243.1190673744.email03.nsc.com @MHS>... >> .is it possible to trap the name of a program making a call to a >> subroutine? >> .IBM COBOL support did not seem to think so, but thought better check >> with "THE LIST". >> >> >> John Donnelly > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
