Assuming that the VL convention is used, if I recall my reading of cobol
compiler listings, using a lot of items in the PROCEDURE DIVISION USING and
then assigning the addresses one by one and stopping when the high order bit
is set. 

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:36:04 +0000 "Raupach, Robert E (CTO Architecture +
Engineering)" <[email protected]> wrote:

:>Greetings...
:>
:>A colleague asked me the following question:
:>
:>  "Is there a way to determine how many parameters are being passed into a 
COBOL program?"
:>
:>I could show him in Assembler, but in COBOL, I wouldn't have a clue.
:>
:>Can someone advise?
:>Thx,
:>Bob R
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