Re: RPG/COBOL with embedded CL

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can check the equal indicator on the CALL opcode, that will tell you if
the call ended OK and at least your program can do some recovery.  Your HLL
program will not give a program message.
Carl
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-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Williams <Williamsc@technocrats.co.uk>
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: RPG/COBOL with embedded CL


>But the problem with QCMDEXC, is that you cannot do a MONMSG on any
>commands you run, so if an error occurs in the command, the calling HLL
>program falls over.
>
>The only problem with modules is that if you have to create an extra
>module for every CL type task you want to perform, you could end up with
>lots of modules/programs, when you only want to perform some very simple
>function, and I prefer to use as few programs/modules as possible, to
>keep object mangement simple!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dennis Lovelady [mailto:dennis@lovelady.com]
>Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 2:46 PM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: RPG/COBOL with embedded CL
>
>
>Hi, Colin:
>
>>I have often thought, if IBM allowed CL program commands to be embedded
>>in their HLL's, they would make development a lot quicker, allowing
>>development of HLL programs without the overhead of having to wrap
>them
>>in a CL control program to perform any sort of housekeeping/error
>>capture.
>>Anyone else got any thoughts on this.
>
>You can do this.  The QCMDEXC program, callable from any HLL (or even
>from
>CL, but why would you?), can be used to execute CL commands anywhere
>within
>your program.  Also, with ILE, you can now create modules in CL that are
>callable from your other ILE HLL programs, making the task simpler yet.
>
>HTH
>--
>Dennis Lovelady                    Simpsonville, SC
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>so."
>        - Josh Billings
>
>
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