After being informed about it last night, yes, it does work. I was looking for something akin to previous assembler features to "PUNCH" or "WRITE" as a compiler directive. Hadn't thought of scouring the manuals for ALIAS. I figured it would be more generic.
C- Charles (Chuck) Hardee Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration EAS Information Technology Thermo Fisher Scientific 300 Industry Drive | Pittsburgh, PA 15275 Phone +1 (724) 517-2633 | Mobile +1 (412) 877-2809 | FAX: +1 (412) 490-9230 [email protected] | www.thermofisher.com WORLDWIDE CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent of a system responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender and delete all copies. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 7:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Question about the COBOL compiler On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Hardee, Chuck <[email protected] > wrote: > Actually, my dynamic calls work just fine to the alias'ed entry points so > it's not an issue. > Bottom line, I' fine with my module's structure both in its primary entry > point and its aliased entry point. > All I am looking for is whether the COBOL compiler can do PUNCH statements > like some of the assemblers and I believe it has been pointed out already > that it doesn't support it. > So, I'm going to have to move on to the compiling tool we use and modify > it to support alternate link parm input. > So making the first line in the program something like: *PROCESS NAME(ALIAS) Doesn't work? > Thanks for your comments. > > Charles (Chuck) Hardee > Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration > EAS Information Technology > > -- Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
