On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:48:39 +0000, Schmitt, Michael wrote: > ... >What I'm trying to do is pass an 8 character field from a COBOL program to a >calling exec. The constraints are: > ... I.e. almost anything that's likely to work. Why? > ... > ..., so the parm is one-way, and would have no way to pass back the > address. Nor will it work to try to pass back an address from the COBOL > program in a return code; it will get truncated. > PARM is two-way for many languages. Does COBOL prohibit that? TSO REXX supports two-way as the caller, not as the subroutine.
Does CCOBOL provide access to the R1 value om entry? That could work with some creative pointer chasing. >(I suppose one option is to call the COBOL program multiple times, passing >back the data as a return code one or two bytes a time, but if it came to that >I have a better last-resort work-around.) > You're desperate. How about POSIX pipes (BPX1PIP, BPX4PIP)? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
