Cameron,

If you add the data areas to the PROCEDURE DIVISION USING statement, then
COBOL will set the linkage accordingly.



Thank you,

Brian Chapman


On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 9:13 AM Cameron Conacher <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I have been busy playing with an old support pac from IBM that enables REXX
> to call an Assembler routine that in turn invokes EXCI.
> Not terribly important, but I thought the PLIST interface between REXX and
> Assembler was pretty slick. I had not seen it before. (and the support pac
> was from 1996!)
>
> It got me to wondering if I could do something similar with REXX calling a
> COBOL routine.
> Can I pass a PLIST from REXX to a COBOL program?
>
> If I can pass the PLIST, do I need to parse the pointer list myself, or can
> I just list out the linkage section items in the order I expect them.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts,
>
> .......Cameron
>
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