The name of ther song is called Haddock Eyes. Data names are variable names; the fields holding the data are variables. In fact, the manual uses the term "condition variable".
In the process of confirming this, I saw the syntax of UTF-8 literals. I had to rinse out my eyes. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Hobart Spitz [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: I want to cry On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:00 AM zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > O my. > > I was on a call with a bunch of customers a few years ago. One of them was > having a very basic problem with a COBOL program calling our product. I > explained that they needed to put the name of <something> into a variable > that gets passed as the first parameter. Silence, then..."What's a > variable?" > > COBOL, and its programmers, use the term "data name", almost exclusively, instead of the term "variables". Why? Because "data name" includes file definitions, structures, 77 levels, 88 levels, etc., none of which are variables. Just because we know a lot of things that few others know, doesn't mean that others don't know what they are talking about.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
