I have a question about LE-compliant assembler programs: at our shop we only write LE-compliant assembler programs.The programs must be able to run in every environment used in the company: MVS batch, IMS and CICS. Programs created using the LE-provided macros (CEEENTRY, CEEDSA, CEEPPA et al) normally allocate extra space on the LE-stack for temporary variables. They cannot contain a WSA (Writable Static Area) because that would make them non-reentrant and makes it impossible to use them in a CICS transaction.
This poses no problems in most situations but sometimes we would like to maintain a 'state' in a program that is saved between different calls to the program within a transaction. This would be similar to COBOL WORKING-STORAGE variables (as opposed to COBOL LOCAL-STORAGE variables that behave exactly like the temporary variables on the LE stack in the assembler programs) that are saved between different calls to the program under the same transaction instance while different transactions instances under CICS have there own copy of this storage. I don't know how to achieve this behaviout in a LE-compliant assembler module... I looked at PSECTs but I am not sure if this is the solution to this problem or how to use them in a mixed language environment (COBOL, PL/I and assembler). Can anybody give nme a clue how I can create and manage my 'instance-storage'? Thanks, Fred! ----------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION: The information in this electronic mail message is private and confidential, and only intended for the addressee. Should you receive this message by mistake, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or use of this message is strictly prohibited. Please inform the sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or opening it. Messages and attachments are scanned for all viruses known. If this message contains password-protected attachments, the files have NOT been scanned for viruses by the ING mail domain. Always scan attachments before opening them. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
