I meant that linking everything AMODE 24 was the 'only' way the users could get it to work - that is why they were asking for other ways to do it.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY In <A826B9FD78356242A9D9595912F9B2323A4468A0EC@DOITTMAIL03.doitt.nycnet>, on 07/12/2011 at 11:06 AM, "Barkow, Eileen" <[email protected]> said: >We have some old Cobol programs that are being upgraded to Enterprise >Cobol and the users would like to be able to link them as AMODE 31 >RMODE ANY. The problem is that some of these programs call assembler >modules to do the i/o via QSAM and VSAM macros (TESTCB, SHOWCB, GET, >PUT, PUTX, etc) and the only way these can work is by linking >everything as AMODE 24, RMODE BELOW. That is *a* way; it is *NOT* the only way. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
