Ray,

That was a good suggestion...the cbttapes

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On Mar 22, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Ray Mullins <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2012-03-22 16:56, Jose ADAUTO Ribeiro wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Please, not diminishing the quick response from Sam Siegel, but someone has 
>> any other information (if that is possible)?
>> 
>> I would like to use this facility to spend the minimum effort to alter a 
>> legacy of programs.
>> This is part of a project I'm evaluating.
>> 
> 
> Unfortunately, Sam is correct, and Steve's response (write a routine to be 
> called by the COBOL program) is probably the least intrusive method of 
> getting a journal exit to run in a COBOL environment. This, of course, 
> requires that every program needs to be changed.
> 
> The other solutions I can think of which do not require changing and 
> recompiling every COBOL involve some pretty deep systems-level stuff to 
> intercept the OPEN (several ways of doing it).
> 
> However, I don't think your request is that unique; I wonder if something has 
> been done already on the CBT tape, for example. I suggest some deeper 
> Internet searching.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ray
> 
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Is there a way, in Cobol, to specify JRNAD module exit to access a VSAM
>>> file ?
>>> 
>>> In Assembler we can specify:
>>> ACB01    ACB   AM=VSAM,DDNAME=VSAM01,MACRF=(KEY,SEQ,DIR,OUT),
>>>               EXLST=EXLST01
>>> EXLST01  EXLST AM=VSAM,JRNAD=(JRNEXIT,A,L)
>>> JRNEXIT  DC    CL8'EXITJRN'
>>> 
>> 
>> I don't think that can be done w/out dropping down to an assembler module
>> to handle the I/O.
>> 
>> 
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> 
>>> Jose Adauto Ribeiro
>>> 
> 
> 
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