What was the release date on that? ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Charles Mills <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2023 1:46 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)
VS COBOL II Release 4 -- change bars on the doc: x LENGTH OF Special Register x The LENGTH OF special register contains the number of bytes used by an x identifier. x LENGTH OF creates an implicit special register whose content is equal x to the current byte length of the data item referenced by the x identifier. x Note: For DBCS data items, each character occupies 2 bytes of x storage. ... and more Charles On Sun, 21 May 2023 00:51:33 +0000, Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> wrote: >At least VS COBOL II, as far as I can remember. This is when CICS added the >COBOL2 translate option to allow the LENGTH argument to be omitted, since it >used LENGTH OF under the covers. >Also, it's called a "special register" rather than built-in function; though >now there is also an intrinsic function LENGTH, as well as BYTE-LENGTH. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
