> On Aug 12, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Bill Woodger <bill.wood...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Perhaps you can suggest a use for it beyond a file-processing loop. > > It may be an "across the Pond" type of thing, FILE STATUS is de rigueur (I > think that means they use it in France as well)? With FILE STATUS you don't > have to AT-END-set-a-flag, you have a "flag" set for you (100% accurate, and > nothing extra to code) which you can use (for a value of "10") as your > termination condition. FILE STATUS used for all files, individual field for > each file, and field checked after each IO. (You do seem to have far greater > a scope of what is possible in your COBOL programs for you to implement than > is normally seen "over here").
Bill: In one shop I worked they had never heard of it so no use there. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
