On Sun, 2 Jun 2019 21:19:28 +0000, Mike Schwab wrote: >Would the XML parser create and read the necessary structure? If not, >I think it could be modified for the different syntax needed. > I suppose an associative array could be represented by a B-tree and COBOL could support B-trees. SMOP.
Populating such a B-tree is another matter. I know of no documented interface, not even including EXECOM, to extract a complete description of the data represented by a Rexx compound symbol. >On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 9:13 PM Clark Morris wrote: >> >> [Default] On 28 May 2019 09:51:13 -0700, (Seymour J Metz) wrote: >> >> >The Sun is hot. ADDRESS LINKMVS is not relevant to the REXX support in >> >SDSF, which does something that ADDRESS LINKMVS does not address. Until >> >such time as COBOL supports associative arrays that a subroutine can >> >update, those facilities will not be available from COBOL. >> I introduced LINKMVS to say that ICSF, as an example, which is not SDSF, can be called with LINKMVS and returns replies in a format friendly to both Rexx and Assembler, and probably COBOL. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
