On 4 Jan 2008 14:41:32 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Comstock) wrote: >> 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.
In those cases, the program would work just fine if the parm size could be larger - with the possibility of a truncated title. I think the problem would be when a program reads data to put in a table and has table overflow. But if someone knows enough to do this, he knows enough to check sizes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
