Ah, I see what you mean. Some of the routines could indeed be done now in COBOL. One routine gets the address of a working-storage area. There's also a date conversion routine that most likely could use LE services, if not be done in COBOL itself.
Nonetheless, there are hundreds of programs that call these routines, and I have no intention of changing them! :-) Frank >________________________________ > From: Clark Morris <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:54 AM >Subject: Re: GOFF > >On 20 Aug 2012 16:20:17 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > >>Upgrades. Why do you ask? >> >If they are upgrades, review them to see if the latest and greatest >COBOL can do the job. This can ease future maintenance. INSPECT >CONVERTING and some of the other things in the 1985 standard >eliminated the need for some routines. Also routines written in COBOL >can be included as sub-programs saving inter-module overhead. > >Clark Morris >> >> >>>________________________________ >>> From: Clark Morris <[email protected]> >>>To: [email protected] >>>Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 5:05 PM >>>Subject: Re: GOFF >>> >>>On 20 Aug 2012 15:13:03 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >>> >>>>I am converting to assembler subroutines, which are called by (Enterprise) >>>>COBOL programs to do various things, to make them re-entrant. Is there any >>>>reason I should not change my assembler options to specify GOFF? >>>> >>>Are these brand new routines as opposed to upgrades of existing >>>routines? >>> >>>Clark Morris >>>> >>> >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>>send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >>> >>> >>> >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
