On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:11:19 -0500, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
>I think Ron Thomas has in mind the fact that Enterprise COBOL does not >[yet] support analogues of such PL/I constructions as > > declare byte aligned bit(8) based(bytep) ; > > declare bits8(8) bit based(bits8p) ; > >which provide immediate programmatic access to the individual bits in >a byte. They can be tested and set directly in PL/I and not in COBOL. > As far as I can see, Ron has no particular interest in Cobol. He only mentioned Cobol to say that Fileaid supports it, in the context of that being of no use to him. It seems he has only an assembler DSECT for the record. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
