John McKown wrote:
IMO, what they mean is that there is not any syntactical language element
which encompasses the hiperspace API at a native language level. Example,
COBOL has a SORT verb which directly implements a language interface to the
"sort" function. As opposed to doing a CALL 'ICEMAIN' in order to interface
to a sort routine.
The C library runtime provides an I/O interface to treat hiperspace
memory as a file. The hiperspace is created with the fopen() function
and a type parameter.
type=memory(hiperspace)
If you are using MVS/ESA, you can specify the HIPERSPACE suboption to
open a hiperspace memory file.
Restriction: For AMODE 64 applications, type=memory(hiperspace) is
treated as type=memory.
fread(), fwrite(), fclose(), clrmemf() etc. support it. And the routines
are callable from COBOL.
Alan
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