Windt, W.K.F. van der (Fred) wrote: >> Can COBOL read environment variables these days? >You can call CEEGTJS to read the value of (exported) JCL variables. Indeed. It is more or less the same as other LE functions + services like CEEENV, CEEDATE, CEEBLDY, CEE3PRM, CEEGMT, CEESxLOG, etc. You setup the parameters, storage, etc and way how you call it and then you call that function/service. [1]
In fact, the book (z/OS Language Environment Programming Reference) contains C++ and COBOL examples for these functions and callable services. Hard and difficult RTFM work, of course, but once you got the hang, it should be easy. This book only contains an example CEEGTJS in C/C++, but it should not be that hard to do the same in COBOL or PL/I. Hmmm, perhaps in a good rainy day, I should try out that CEEGTJS in COBOL out just for fun. ;-) Just keep an eye on these results after calling that service CEEGTJS: CEE000, CEE3L9, CEE3LA, CEE3QS Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - I played around in Assembler and COBOL with date/time/utc/local CEE functions during testing and implementing of our brand new STP some years ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
