Re: Re: MVT COBOL under MVS3.8j.

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A while back I came across a COBOL ISAM example in one of the DOS forums, I guess it's some kind of demo. It works fine with DOS, and I also did a very quick and dirty job of converting it to run on MVS, just for my own interest.
 

 I can send it along if you're interested. It uses Assembler to create a small ISAM file and then to retrieve the contents sequentially. It then does random ISAM retrievals in Assembler, RPG, COBOL and PL/1. All FB records by the way.

 

 Fifty-something years ago I was doing random ISAM retrievals using COBOL with VB records at Rolls Royce. All ran to spec (local IBM folk seemed to think it was quite pioneering at the time), but I would find it pretty tough to reproduce those COBOL programs today!
 

 JJ
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