Thanks Don, That is a pretty good idea, but not quite what I was looking for since BPX1ATM would not be synchronous. I suppose that I could follow it with BPX1WAT to reap the child process return code. So this combination is probably one way to do it without Assembler.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Don Poitras <[email protected]> wrote: > I would think you could call BPX1ATM (attach_execmvs()) from COBOL. > > In article <CAHm_n2k3Y6YPjiF30BFYBhqFhvSgo0dub2wdVNne2K= > [email protected]> you wrote: > > We have a batch utility program that is built in C that uses the XPLINK > > version of the C runtime. A customer would like to "dynamically" call > > this from COBOL, but of course the LE runtimes are not compatible: > > > IGZ0179S A dynamic call to COZBATCH failed because the load module > contains > > one > > or more routines with XPLINK linkage. > > > > Is it possible to do the equivalent of a Assembler "LINK" (separate RB > and > > LE runtime environment) from COBOL without writing an Assembler stub > > routine? > > > Thanks, > > > Kirk Wolf > > Dovetailed Technologies > > http://dovetail.com > > -- > Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive > [email protected] (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
