On 25 May 2005 06:53:08 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >I'll see what I can do; things tend to be busy enough around here that trying >to get someone to take time to play probably won't fly. In any case, I need >to restate what I was trying to say, because I think I got two posts from the >"PARM" thread mixed up. I don't doubt that most of our programmers can invoke >a COBOL program via a CALL statement, but I do doubt that most of them know >they can run a batch COBOL program through TSO. > >I'm not trying to denigrate the abilities of our programmers, either; most of >them simply have too much to do to be able to take time to do anything beyond >simply getting their assignments done. > >Jon > > ><snip> >Humor me. Take this snippet to some of your COBOL programmers, good >and bad, and ask them if they can write a program that will invoke it. ></snip> > I was aware both as an applications programmer and as a systems programmer that one COBOL program could call another one. I also thought that the limit was 144 bytes and the new limit of 100 bytes was due to LE. I also was paranoid and made sure that the parm length was within the expected set of values, normally less than 144.
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