Mark, You can also call a svc99 routine in assembler ...we use BPXWDYN and make calls in Cobol..this will be converted to C and it has a dynamic function call ...all ready
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Sep 6, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Mark Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at this IBM Technote, it implies they will. > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21046577 > > Mark Jacobs > > On 09/06/13 09:43, Charles Mills wrote: >> I don't *think* CEEENV or setenv will do dynamic allocation. >> >> That might be a good reason to pick BPXWDYN. >> >> Charles >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Mark Jacobs >> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 4:21 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Dynamic Allocation in COBOL >> >> This might not be the right forum for this question, but... >> >> Doing some very limited in initial research I've found three documented >> methods of performing Dynamic Allocation in COBOL ( Enterprise COBOL 4.2), >> BPXWDYN, CEEENV or setenv. >> >> Q1) Are there any others?We already use a home grown assembler program for >> dynamic allocation, but our direction is to move as much to the OS as >> possible. >> Q2) Is there any reason to pick one over the others? >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > -- > Mark Jacobs > Time Customer Service > Tampa, FL > ---- > > The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe... > The loud ones only take the credit. > > Londo Mollari - Babylon 5 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
