Bill, you're a genius. Made the change, now it works as expected. I forgot about the structure of PARM when passed to the program. Now I get displays
+Iterate 00001 times +Reading record +Reading record Tried larger values also; all look good. Thanks! . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Woodger Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2016 4:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):COBOL Rookie Problem Your definition of the parm in the LINKAGE SECTION is incorrect. It must be preceded by two bytes, which is the length of the PARM. 01 parm-stuff. 05 FILLER PIC XX. 05 iterate PIC 9(5). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
