[Info-vax] COBOL, <gack!> again! Return status.

[bill]

On 9/11/2023 3:01 PM, Brian Schenkenberger wrote:
> How does a COBOL program return a status (ie. R0) to a calling program? 
> I found a reference to RETURN-CODE but compiler balks at that.
> 

In Unix ending the program with:

     STOP RUN RETURNING {literal-1}
                        {identifier-1}


will make a return code available to the shell.

If you want a status returned to DCL I expect that would do it.

bill

{I really need to get a VMS system running here again.}