[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Fri Jun 10 14:16:12 EDT 2022


On 6/10/22 12:39 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>    10  ENQ-TYPE      PIC X(1)  VALUE EXTERNAL PQL$_ENQLM.
> ..............^
> %COBOL-E-EXTREFVAL, VALUE EXTERNAL clause ignored - valid only on COMP
> data-item
> 
> How do you put PQL$ items in to a COBOL "byte"?

I never knew much COBOL and haven't looked at any in decades, but I
would think for a one-byte integer it would be "PIC 9(1)" rather than
"PIC X(1)".



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