On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 14:16 -0600, John McKown wrote: > It is possible to test, set, reset, and shift bits in COBOL by using the LE > subroutines: > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CEEA31B0/2.3
Yes, but these are S-L-O-W. If you're doing much bit manipulation (and I'm specifically thinking of a SMF30 analyzer I did once that called CEESITST lots of times) then you might well be better off rolling your own. -- David Andrews A. Duda & Sons, Inc. [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
