Thank you Brian.
This is helpful.

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> On Mar 22, 2021, at 9:22 AM, Brian Chapman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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