Thanks everyone.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:35 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > The PLIST format is the same regardless of language; for AMODE 24 or AMODE > 31 it's just a list of pointers with the high bit of the last pointer set. > However, the Devil is in the details. > > If you are calling a main program, REXX handles everything. If you are > calling a program that doesn't expect a specific runtime environment, e.g., > LE, to have been initialized, then as long as you can create the proper > parameters, REXX handles everything. I don't know of any way to call a > program that expects an existing LE environment or that requires any input > beyond R14-R1. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of Cameron Conacher [conac...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 9:12 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Can I use a REXX PLIST when calling a COBOL program? > > Hello everyone, > I have been busy playing with an old support pac from IBM that enables REXX > to call an Assembler routine that in turn invokes EXCI. > Not terribly important, but I thought the PLIST interface between REXX and > Assembler was pretty slick. I had not seen it before. (and the support pac > was from 1996!) > > It got me to wondering if I could do something similar with REXX calling a > COBOL routine. > Can I pass a PLIST from REXX to a COBOL program? > > If I can pass the PLIST, do I need to parse the pointer list myself, or can > I just list out the linkage section items in the order I expect them. > > Thanks for any thoughts, > > .......Cameron > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
