Tom Marchant wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:27:56 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blaicher, Chris
I always parse right out of the parameter area passed to me by the
caller. At worst I store the value in R1 so I can get back to it. And
if I was going to store the data, I would GETMAIN the area
based on the
halfword length parameter and then move it.
Chris
That is what a good programmer will do. It is not what an "average"
COBOL programmer would likely do. My worries for this would be more
about in-house written routines which use PARM than vendor routines.
It's been over 30 years since I was a COBOL programmer, but I'm sure that I
never moved the parm that was supplied in the JCL. Yes, I wrote quite a few
programs that would accept a parm. The parm area was always coded in the
linkage section and processed ther directly. It was accessed with PROCEDURE
DIVISION USING or ENTRY USING when using older compilers. What would be
the point of moving it?
Could be [part of] a report title, an as-of date, a feature
request that needs to be echoed back somewhere.
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