All, C and C++ I know supports it , If my old eyes read correctly. Hlasm does. If I am just using 64bit storage to store/retrieve data that should work?
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Oct 17, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Don Poitras <[email protected]> wrote: > > In article > <CAFMxNWL0GLo1kCpEMokfozjhqVBN8VyUHUON4eWxC=c5Y=8...@mail.gmail.com> you > wrote: >> I was interpreting Scott's question as how can above-the-bar memory be used >> directly by COBOL. > > Which is why Peter was confused. No such support currently exists. While > there's been a lot of talk about AMODE 64 COBOL, it's not there today. > >>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Peter Relson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Perhaps I misunderstood the problem. >>> >>> Whether called by the system, Cobol, or anything else, an HLASM routine >>> can get any storage that its authorization allows it to. That includes >>> storage below the bar, above the bar, and in data spaces. The routine can >>> switch in and out of any AMODE that its RMODE allows (e.g., an RMODE 31 >>> program better not "SAM24"). >>> >>> The caller needs to provide parameters in the form that the HLASM routine >>> wants (or conversely the HLASM routine needs to accommodate the parameters >>> that the caller provides; this is probably the easier approach). >>> >>> If you need the calling routine to then be able to deal with the storage >>> above 2G, that's a different matter entirely. >>> >>> Peter Relson >>> z/OS Core Technology Design > > -- > 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
