On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Hardee, Chuck <chuck.har...@thermofisher.com > wrote:
> After being informed about it last night, yes, it does work. > I was looking for something akin to previous assembler features to "PUNCH" > or "WRITE" as a compiler directive. > Hadn't thought of scouring the manuals for ALIAS. I figured it would be > more generic. > Given that COBOL is supposed to be "universal" to _any_ OS, machine architecture, yada yada, I am guessing the official language will _never_ support putting arbitrary data into the compiler output stream. I guess IBM could implement a extension. Perhaps based on something like the HLASM REPRO instruction: PROCESS REPRO .. ARBITRARY OBJECT RECORD PROCESS REPRO ... ANOTHER ARBITRARY OBJECT RECORD > > C- > > Charles (Chuck) Hardee > Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration > EAS Information Technology > > -- Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
