There are always about 6 ways to do the same thing. Just understand how it works, then fit the solution or method into your design ...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Sep 6, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Well I'll be darned. It's a good day. I learned something. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 7:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Dynamic Allocation in COBOL > > setenv does not _directly_ do a dynamic allocation. It sets up an LE > environment variable, which has the same name as what is normally considered > the DD name. If the DD name in the SELECT in COBOL is not already allocated, > _and_ an LE environment variable is properly set up, _then_ the COBOL run > time will do a dynamic allocation. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
