RE: Change *DTAARA from within a COBOL pgm ? follow up

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>What if I call ChgDa with a decimal variable:
> DCL  DecVar  Dec(5,2)
>ChgVar &DecVar Value(22.23)
>Call chgda ('NUMB      BUCK      ' &DecVar )
>/* boom ? */
>
>a problem, buck, with the generic cl approach:
>a decimal dtaara can be 24,9. rpg supports such
>a packed decimal value.  cl does not.  only goes to 15,5.
>
>Keep on trying<g>

The original contention was that in CL, one "could not easily handle the
diff data types of diff data areas. Call the module to chg a char dtara,
then call it again to chg a dec(11,2) dtaara, then a logical, ..."  Given
that this CL snippet easily handles this, one can overcome the limitations
of CL's CHGDTAARA by using similar data area facilities in other languages.

Lest I fail the test <g>, CL can handle variables declared 15,9.  Readers
should prompt the DCL command for details.

Regards!
  Buck