I think Ron Thomas has in mind the fact that Enterprise COBOL does not [yet] support analogues of such PL/I constructions as
declare byte aligned bit(8) based(bytep) ; declare bits8(8) bit based(bits8p) ; which provide immediate programmatic access to the individual bits in a byte. They can be tested and set directly in PL/I and not in COBOL. Still, he can look at them in hex under ISPF and the like. If Ron really needs a PL/I declaratiuon for this record, I can provide him with one as fast as I can type it out given the COBOL version. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
