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Thank you Gregg.
On 9/16/19 8:51 AM, Gregg Levine [email protected] [H390-MVS] wrote:
>
> Hello!
> I remember trying and failing to grok COBOL on an UNIVAC system, not
> that it matters, we used IBM coding forms, back in my not very
> properly spent youth, and after giving up on it, I realized why. Kevin
> please ask off list. And I've decided, this discussion now has an
> extension, instead of fourteen days to figure the problem out, it now
> has one more month past that.
>
> Basically group, I have come to the conclusion, that regardless which
> release of COBOL it is, somethings just can not be properly solved.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine [email protected]
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 8:29 AM Kevin Monceaux Kevin-cpkmRUY/[email protected]
> [H390-MVS] <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Peppe,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 01:53:06PM +0200, Giuseppe Vitillaro
> giuseppe-yuD/ahkh7LvrZ44/[email protected] [H390-MVS] wrote:
> >
> > > I guess in pure COBOL '68 that is not possible?
> >
> > MVT COBOL also means it only handles ISAM, not VSAM. I've been curious
> > about what COBOL programs using ISAM looked like. I've never had
> much luck
> > finding examples. Due to the limitations of ISAM, most folks use
> VSAM via
> > Jay Moseley's COBOL VSAM access routines instead:
> >
> > http://www.JayMoseley.com/hercules/vsam_io/vscobol.htm
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kevin
> > http://www.RawFedDogs.net
> > http://www.Lassie.xyz
> > http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
> > Bruceville, TX
> >
> > What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works!
> > Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.
> >
> >
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> > Posted by: Kevin Monceaux <Kevin-cpkmRUY/[email protected]>
> > ------------------------------------
>
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