Re: PROTOTYPING - What type of data are values as *MONTH, *DAY, *SYS

[Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Igor,

> Please, can somebody explain me what are exactly *MONTH, *DAY, *SYS,
> *YEAR, *OMIT, *NOPASS etc. values?? Where are they stored when program
> runs??

Those are figurative constants that the compiler won't let you use in
that context.  What I do is create named constants which I include in
my copybook for the prototype.  Being the USA type who never had to
deal with variant characters, I use a leading @ instead of * then
define constants like @DAYS, @MONTHS, etc.

I define the actual parameter as an integer, and assign the constants
enumeration values such as 0, 1, 2, 3, etc in my named constants.

Doug