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

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, 'Bill Turner, WB4ALM' [email protected] [H390-MVS] wrote:

> Joe, I vaguely remember see (and using) a "trick" that created a negative 
> offset to the LLBB bytes in front of the buffer.
>
> I know that it was not a "supported" feature of COBOL, but that it did work.
>
> It's been too many years, and I don't seem to have an old listing in my files 
> that shows the way it was done.
> Do you recall any "unsupported" features that actually worked?
>
> /s/ Bill Turner, wb4alm
>
If the "trick" works for both READ/WRITE, I would be
really interested. It would be really a nice tool
for managing variable length, possibly spanned, datasets
from a cobol source.

Peppe.