[Default] On 28 May 2019 09:51:13 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Seymour J Metz) wrote:
>The Sun is hot. ADDRESS LINKMVS is not relevant to the REXX support in SDSF, >which does something that ADDRESS LINKMVS does not address. Until such time as >COBOL supports associative arrays that a subroutine can update, those >facilities will not be available from COBOL. I assume you mean that a COBOL has to be able to CALL 'X' with a USING or RETURNING phrase that has the right pointers to a associative array and that COBOL has to be able to set up that array for either the USING phrase of the call or the RETURNING phrase of the CALL. After having read the wiki definition I am confused enough that I would need to see an Assembler description of an associative array to determine whether either the IBM Enterprise COBOL 6.2 or the 2014 Standard COBOL with data types not in IBM COBOL would allow to me to describe the associative array with complete accuracy. The 2002 and 2014 Standards for COBOL have all of the data types necessary to completely describe SMF records such as USAGE BIT and USAGE BINARY-CHARACTER. (IF USAGE BIT seems esoteric, I had to deal with bit switches on my company's customer, product and open account files.) Getting back to the original issue, can a COBOL CALL statement for dynamic CALL invoke SDSF and can it pass the needed data areas and accept them? I think that even IBM COBOL is more powerful than most people realize and the newer standards (2002 and 2014) are leaps forward in capability (like being able to handle the various types of decimal rounding only 40 years after the need arose or bit switches 30+ years after at least some shops started using them in applications. Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
