The COBOL V5.2 Migration Guide (GC14-7383-03) says: "Enterprise COBOL V5 programs can dynamically call (and be dynamically called by) VS COBOL II RES programs."
If I have an existing assembler program which calls a VS COBOL II RES program after calling the older COBOL environment setup program IGZERRE, how can I now call the existing VS COBOL II RES program using the CEEPIPI technique mandated for COBOL V5.2 subroutines? In other words, if COBOL V5.2 can call a VS COBOL II RES program, how do I now do this myself from assembler when I may also be calling COBOL V5.2 subroutines which require the use of CEEPIPI to make a call? The problem is that the CEEPIPI (add_sub) function call returns error RC=20 (not an LE program) for VS COBOL II RES programs I have tested so far, so I do not see any way to use CEEPIPI to call such routines. Currently in my assembler code I found that I can identify VS COBOL II RES programs (after a LOAD) by the compiler ID string "C2 1.3.1" at zero-relative offset decimal 14 (1-relative byte position 15) in the generated object code. The compiler listing header for such programs is: PP 5668-958 IBM VS COBOL II Release 3.1 09/19/89 Is this COBOL version too old to be LE-compatible, even when programs were compiled with the RESident option? Peter -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
