he could work his way back thru the saveareas, no?

Joe

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:05 PM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:

> Standard linkage conventions don't require branching around an eyecatcher
> or that they eyecatcher be in a standardized format or even include the
> module name. So the question is what special cases does the OP need to
> handle.
>
>
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> Subject: Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called
> COBOL program
>
> If it's using standard OS linkage, he could use an assembler routine to do
> a traceback and get some of the items.
>
> The problem will come in if passed by value instead of by reference...
>
> Joe
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:58 PM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
>
> > I doubt that it's possible in general, certain special cases are
> possible.
> >
> >
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> > Subject: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL
> > program
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am hoping someone out there can help me with this 'opportunity'.
> >
> > In a Z/OS enterprise COBOL environment, I want to be able to retrieve the
> > calling program name and the number of parms passed to the called program
> > from the called program. In other words, program A is executed in my
> batch
> > job and it calls program B passing 5 parms in the using statement. I want
> > program B to be able to retrieve the program name for program A as well
> as
> > the number of parms that were passed to it.
> >
> > I think if I could get to the program stack I could probably figure it
> out
> > from there.
> >
> > Any assistance that any of you could provide would be greatly
> appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
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