Historically, COBOL main programs, which CICS could and did make quasi-reentrant, could not call COBOL subprograms in a CICS environment because they were not and coul;d not be made reentrant.
That problem has long since been dealt with: COBOL main programs and subprograms can be made reentrant, even "thread-safe", although in this context it may be necessary to use COBOL local storage more than most COBOL programmers seem to want to use it. The notion that subroutines cannot be called in this environment is of course nonsense: some of CICS's own work is done using them. Many of these restrictions are and have always been larger than life; they are imposed in the spirit of protecting the programmer equivalents of AAAPPs from their own blunders. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA Avant d'imprimer cet e-mail, réfléchissons à l'impact sur l'environnement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
