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 

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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-----
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>> 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?
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