On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 12:01:00 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: >On 3/7/2013 10:23 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >> >> No! Only use LINKMVS if you want halfword length fields prepended to >> the arguments; otherwise use LINKPGM. > >For the OP the target is CoBOL, presumably expecting character values. >It should be possible to code the program(s) to detect how they are >called and accept either form. I've done that in the past, but for >assembler subroutines. > E.g. if the first hex digit is 0, assume the first two bytes are a length specification, up to 4095.
BPXWDYN makes a similar judgment, and I got an astonishing result by passing it a PARM beginning with a character it was unprepared to handle. - gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
