[open-cobol-list] RE: COBOL Pgms

[Robert Sherry]

William,

    You are right and I need to apologize for saying that the program
compiled on the IBM Mainframe. I am not an MVS person, but I have an
associate is. I asked him to compile and run the program for me which he
did. When he did this, the program did not compile. Hence he added an item
in working storage so that it would compile. I just found this out. However,
the original program does compile with the Open Source COBOL Compiler.

Bob Sherry

-----Original Message-----
From: William M. Klein [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:17 PM
To: 'Robert Sherry'
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: COBOL Pgms

The attached program was NOT identical to what was originally posted.  It
passes a Working-Storage item as the first argument *not* an alphanumeric
literal.  This makes MUCH more sense to me.

Again, this has NOTHING to do with retaining addressability to linkage
section items between CALLs - but does mean that program with

  CALL "whatever" Using "alphanumeric literal"

Are NOT valid for IBM compilers (at least not as shown by this program).

Thanks for running the test. 

________________________________

From: Robert Sherry [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:50 AM
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: FW: COBOL Pgms



William,

 

      Here is the information you requested.

 

Bob Sherry