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

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Joe Monk [email protected] [H390-MVS] wrote:

> "I guess in pure COBOL '68 that is not possible?"
>
> That's correct Peppe. If you read the paragraph it says:
>
> "Control bytes are automatically provided when a record *is*  written and are
> not communicated to the  user when a file is read."
>
> Joe

What a shame ;-)

Thanks, a thing to remember.

Now, for handling variable length datasets, possibly spanned,
in an high level language (I know is more than possible calling
access methods from assembler) what is left in our MVS3.8j toolbox?

PLI is the more accessible way, if I got it correctly?

Peppe.