Bill Klein wrote:
Changing that stuff works very well if you use the technique that I
described. You put in an "arbitrary" Record Contains and/or Block Contains
in the COBOL FD - and then "modify" the DCB info in the Assembler program
that you call - passing it the DCB.
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Hi Bill
Thanks for your good suggestion. But my client require that he could
decide an output dataset's record length and block size dynamically,
and the file format must be FB.
I didn't see the original post (since the OP did not post
it to the list), so I'm not sure of the exact requirement.
But if the file to be dynamically allocated is an input
file, you can do the whole thing in COBOL! (Well, you have
to call a C function - but _not_ a C program; just call
the 'putenv' function, which is part of LE, so everyone
has it).
[Actually, you can do this for output files, too, but
it's a little more work.]
Discussed (with a hands-on lab) in our two-day course
"Enterprise COBOL Update I: Essentials". Details on
the course at:
http://www.trainersfriend.com/COBOL_Courses/d704descr.htm
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
http://www.trainersfriend.com/
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