Re: COBOL Bit Manipulation -- COBOL400-L

Subject: Re: COBOL Bit Manipulation
From: "Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:09:51 -0500
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ILE COBOL could use one of the following techniques to perform bit manipulation:

1. use the MI built-in functions for the MI instructions ANDSTR, ORSTR, XORSTR,to set or reset bits and TSTBTS to test bits.
or
2. write a small *SRVPGM in ILE C and use C/400's bit manipulation capabilities,
and export procedures to perform the needed bit manipulation functions, and use those procedures from ILE COBOL.

Does that help?

Mark S. Waterbury

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