Re: Procedure equivalent in Cobol

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/09/2009, at 9:55 AM, steelville wrote:

> I just joined a mixed-code shop, and there's plenty of RPG but most of
> the code is Cobol. I know Cobol but I hate spelling it with all caps.

Like the ILE RPG compiler, ILE COBOL will accept lower-case input.

> And I poked around in the manuals but can't get clear how ILE is
> implemented in Cobol. Could I get direction on this. All I can find so
> far is about either CRTBNDCBL and compiling one source member to one  
> module.

CRTBNDCBL is equivalent to CRTBNDRPG. CRTCBLMOD is equivalent to  
CRTRPGMOD. Use CRTPGM or CRTSRVPGM to bind modules together.

> I'd like to know if there's an equivalent to RPG's subprocedures and  
> all
> that...


Nope. COBOL's equivalent is nested programs--not quite the same thing  
but close.


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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