On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:41:53 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: > >If you write the assembly-language subroutine, make it [a] generic, >reentrant RECFM-get routine that will be reusable and put the logic >for distinguishing FB and VB (and rejecting other possible values) in >its caller. > My notion of "generic" would be to return RECFM whatever it is (and LRECL) and let the caller make the decision of suitability.
(Or, accept a list of permissible values.) In COBOL, must the necessary choices be made earlier than entry to the DCB OPEN exit? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
