John McKown wrote: >In current Enterprise COBOL, it is not necessary to use BPXWDYN to do dynamic allocation. Using "environment variables", it is possible to specify dynamic allocation information in the program itself.
Oh, yes. Thanks! I remember that now. Thanks for this reminder. This will certainly helps the OP if he chooses to use it. >Note that I've done the above in normal batch COBOL (not just UNIX COBOL programs). Interesting that COBOL does not specify default values (when using environment variables) for data set disposition. Wannabe programmers: Beware! ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
