Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Charles Mills
Eighth Edition (March 1993) | This edition replaces and makes obsolete the previous edition, | SC26-4047-06. Technical changes for this edition are summarized | under"Summary of Changes" in topic FRONT_3 and are indicated by a | vertical bar to the left of the change. | This edition applies

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Frank Swarbrick
What was the release date on that? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Charles Mills Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2023 1:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question) VS COBOL II Release 4 -- change bars

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Phil Smith III
Well, various folks have convinced me that I missed this back when I looked for it! I have a hazy memory of asking someone-not this list-about it and being told "No" but that might be wishful thinking. Hmm, it *had* been a while; I looked at the source, found this comment: *Given two

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Charles Mills
Dated March 12, 1993 On Sun, 21 May 2023 14:46:10 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: >VS COBOL II Release 4 -- change bars on the doc: > >x LENGTH OF Special Register >x The LENGTH OF special register contains the number of bytes used by an >x identifier. > >x LENGTH OF creates an

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Charles Mills
VS COBOL II Release 4 -- change bars on the doc: x LENGTH OF Special Register x The LENGTH OF special register contains the number of bytes used by an x identifier. x LENGTH OF creates an implicit special register whose content is equal x to the current byte length of the data

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 21 May 2023 18:56:39 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The Initiator calls it with a 32-bit PLIST, so below the bar and if you invoke >it with CALL you must be aware that it is a main program and do likewise. > >WEe hates it, precious, we hates it. > It should have been easy enough for the

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2023 2:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question) On Sun, 21 May 2023 16:51:18 +

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
, 2023 2:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question) On Sun, 21 May 2023 16:51:18 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >That's not a CALL convention. The primary use case for the halfword length is >programs that can be invoked with EXEC PGM=. .

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 21 May 2023 16:51:18 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >That's not a CALL convention. The primary use case for the halfword length is >programs that can be invoked with EXEC PGM=. ... >I assume that you're talking AMODE24 or AMODE31; for AMODE64 things are >different. > If a program object

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2023 12:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question) On Sun, 21 May 2023 08:02:59 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 21 May 2023 08:02:59 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > >Curious how you used a subroutine. It only worked for fields in a structure >where you passed the address of the field and the next field and it subtracted >the addresses? > >Was there a way to make COBOL pass a dope vector with

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-20 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sat, 20 May 2023 19:09:03 -0400 Phil Smith III wrote: :>Since when does COBOL have LENGTH OF? I looked for this about 12 years ago and didn't find it, wrote a tiny and trivial assembler function to do the same thing. Did I miss it, or is it new since then? :>Not that the code has needed

Re: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-20 Thread Frank Swarbrick
d it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2023 5:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question) Since when does COBOL have LENGTH OF? I looked for this about 12 years ago and d

LENGTH OF in COBOL (was: ISPF HILITE Question)

2023-05-20 Thread Phil Smith III
Since when does COBOL have LENGTH OF? I looked for this about 12 years ago and didn't find it, wrote a tiny and trivial assembler function to do the same thing. Did I miss it, or is it new since then? Not that the code has needed any support, but I'm glad that if it ever becomes an issue, I