The NAME compiler option (can be used from PARM, from CBL/PROCESS source statement) does generate binder/linkage-editor control statements.
I don't think that it would be at all a good idea to have "arbitrary" binder/linkage-editor inserted by a programmer. There's too much that could be done, deliberately or by accident. On Friday, 5 August 2016 14:21:21 UTC+2, John McKown wrote: > Given that COBOL is supposed to be "universal" to _any_ OS, machine > architecture, yada yada, I am guessing the official language will _never_ > support putting arbitrary data into the compiler output stream. I guess > IBM could implement a extension. Perhaps based on something like the HLASM > REPRO instruction: > > PROCESS REPRO > .. ARBITRARY OBJECT RECORD > PROCESS REPRO > ... ANOTHER ARBITRARY OBJECT RECORD > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
