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Hello, most of you will already know this but its the first time I have had to do it so thought I'd share what I found. An Enterprise cobol program has to call a non LE compliant Assembler routine which is both amode(24) and rmode(24). After many OC4's, what seems to work is link edit the cobol...

Does anyone know how to do this, I think this is accomplished using pointers but I can't remember exactly how, example code would be really helpful...but of course all help much appreciated cheers Andy

Hi am trying to find out about this language, and most of all am trying to find some manuals in English. The system has been ported from a UNisys environment to mainframe and the shop has kept these API's all written in this language and am trying to work out what they do. All help much...

A bit of a philosophical post here, but am gathering opinions. Am looking to do some kind of certification which would add to my experience as a Cobol CICS DB2 A/P. Where do you see the future for us and what certifications would you recommend? Any advice much appreciated.

Hi am dealing with a rewrite of a module which uses comp 2 fields. From IBM it would seem these can contain either 18 or 31 digits but how do you know how many decimal places there are? Also if I wanted to split the comp 2 field into two fields i.e. ws-integer ws-decimal whats the best way of...

Hi I want to know what how to find out what database a particular cics region is pointing to...all help much appreciated????

hi thought i'd post this on the db2 forum as well as the cobol forum,so all help much appreciated... I am running a piece of sql doing a count and want to check the count into field hasn't exceeded its max value (null indicator???) cheers Andy

hello i am running a piece of sql to do a count and want to know how to check if the count into field has gone over the max value of that field (null indicator????) all help much appreciated Andy

OK don't know the best way to describe this but here goes...my main module,running in CICS) calls a submodule for every row in an array, the submodule does an open/fetch/close(DB2) on the parm passed by the main module for the search...

OK don't know the best way to describe this but here goes...my main module,running in CICS) calls a submodule for every row in an array, the submodule does an open/fetch/close(DB2) on the parm passed by the main module for the search criteria. On calling the submodule greater than once the...

Hi was wondering if its possible, how to and if its advisable to transfer a file using FTP from a CICS/COBOL module.??? Andymc

Hi, first post,apologies for its baffled tone...I want to know whether its possible, how to and whether its advisable to transfer a file using FTP from OS/390 using a CICS/COBOL module. I kind of figured that this type of thing would normally be done in batch with JCL and FTP, but I have no idea...