Re: : Looking for some direction on USS / JAVA / C / COBOL and or Assembler please.

2016-11-03 Thread Jim
Hello Denis, Thank you for your response. I found out about COBOL 64 / 31 a couple of hours after I'd posted .. I've written a 64 bit assembler program that in turn calls the 31 bit COBOL program. Have not had a chance to test it just yet .. In any event, thank you very much for your

Re: : Looking for some direction on USS / JAVA / C / COBOL and or Assembler please.

2016-11-03 Thread Denis
Hi Jim, you cannot mix 64bit Java and 31bit COBOL. As of now there is no COBOL compiler that creates 64bit code. Please switch to the 31bit JVM. In addition, you can code JNI calls in COBOL, no C wrapper required and compile it using JCL. Please note, that C can produce 64bit code and as such

Re : Looking for some direction on USS / JAVA / C / COBOL and or Assembler please.

2016-11-02 Thread Jim
Listers, For brevity ... I've been trying to get the Standalone Java vol 2 example of JAVA calling COBOL (and assembler) via a C glue working, unsuccessfully .. I'm on a z/OS 2.2 box, Java 7 x64 only .. I can install 31bit java am hoping I won't be limited to that ... I've compiled my