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- From: bdissen@netvision.net.il (Binyamin Dissen)
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- Subject: Re: MVS/TSO: access (COBOL) program
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 20:16:09 GMT
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- On Sun, 24 Dec 1995 16:17:17 GMT stefan@finker.demon.co.uk (Stefan Finka)
- wrote:
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- :>Kobler Daniel <101452.2233@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
- :>
- :>>How can I call a (e.g. COBOL) program on a MVS system and
- :>>exchange data between the calling REXX routine and the called
- :>>(COBOL) program?
- :>>I've heard about a tool called IRXEXCOM. Is this the right one
- :>>and if, how do I have to use it? Any examples available?
- :>
- :>A great place to start if you want to see an example of some COBOL
- :>code that interacts directly with rexx variables using IRXEXCOM when
- :>invoked from a rexx exec is the file RXDB2.ZIP on the IBM DB2 Family
- :>Forum on Compuserve.
- :>This file was uploaded as freeware by a Dave Boll (the same one that
- :>has also posted a reply on this thread?). Its a rexx interface to the
- :>execution of dynamic SQL with DB2, by the way.
- :>The necessary information is contained in the TSO/E Rexx Programming
- :>Services section of the IBM Rexx Reference manual. However, that is
- :>very much geared towards implementation in Assembler.
- :>In the RXDB2 program mentioned above, the author has gone to
- :>considerable trouble to construct COBOL versions of the control blocks
- :>and to handle all the business of the addresses and lengths of the
- :>data areas needed.
- :>
- :>
- Where is this available for non-compuserve users?
-
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- Binyamin Dissen <bdissen@netvision.net.il>
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