Yes, but we don't know what he's using. I hope it's not 5734-CB1.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Joe Monk <joemon...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 6:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program Well, here is the answer to at least part of the puzzle, if not all... "You can find the name of the calling programs from a COBOL V5 or V6 program at run time by using the LE service CEETBCK. For more information, see the z/OS® Language Environment® Vendor Interfaces." https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3SA380688/$file/ceev100_v2r3.pdf Joe On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 5:42 PM Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:51:34 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > > >Current Enterprise COBOL compilers (and back as far as I know, even COBOL > F-level from MVT) always mark the last parameter address in the address > list with the bit 0 turned on, though I have not researched what current > ones do if the last parameter is "BY VALUE". > > > >Again for current Enterprise COBOL versions, the LE Vendor Interfaces > manual available in KC has the PPA1 format and in general how to locate it. > > > The answer depends on agreement between the designers of the calling > and called programs. Lacking such agreement there's no general > solution. > > C programs called by a POSIX shell can rely on argc, but only because > that's > specified in the Standard. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
