Re: ILE/Cobol 400 parameters.

["telsci" <telsci@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know if ILE/Cobol 400 alows command line parameters, but regular
Cobol/400 will take command line parameters defined in a LINKAGE SECTION
and with the statement PROCEDURE DIVISION USING...

I don't know is it's call by pointer or call by value.  I presume you could
pass the value of a pointer.  I know that it's a bi-directional transfer of
data, so I suspect it's passing pointers.

I don't know about the ability to use a dynamic number of parameters, but
you could use one long parameter.  The first few bytes of the parameter
could tell COBOL how many parameters are encoded in the long parameter.  CL
programs and user spaces do this sort of thing a lot.

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