Not to put too fine a point on encapsulation because what you say is true for Working-Storage and Paragraphs or Sections. But you can restrict or make variables available to internal subroutines with the GLOBAL attribute. Likewise, variables can be made available to external subroutines with the EXTERNAL attribute.
Either fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your requirement, EXTERNAL does not imply GLOBAL. Cheers, Jon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
