Re: Where do I start?

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> wrote:

>  That's a mighty big chunk to bite off at once. COBOL, as well as the
> other high-level languages, has no direct access to full-screen facilities.
> In short, COBOL knows nothing about tubes. You'll need some Assembler
> subroutines, at the very least, just to "paint" a full screen and that's
> assuming that you know the screen geometry. I'm attaching a simple-minded
> line-mode TSO app, in Assembler.
>
> The Data Management is a simple VSAM issue, but it's going to take some
> serious study and PLAN on making mistakes; VSAM is NOT for the meek. As I've
> said before, I'll help as much as I can.
>
> Rick
>
> Thanks Rick..

Right now I am playing at just displaying a screen with some protected and
unprotected areas..

Ron.