Kay,
You could always write an assembler routine that does the GETSTG passing
it
the length and it returning the pointer. Sorry but I missed why the use
of
LENGTH and POINTER are so important.
Pete
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From: IDMS Public Discussion Forum on behalf of Rozeboom, Kay [DAS]
Sent: Thu 23/07/2009 15:48
To:
IDMS-L@LISTSERV.IUASSN.COM
Subject: Re: Get storage
I was wrong about getting a clean compile. When I looked at the code
generated by the pre-compiler (which I should have done earlier), there
was
no reference to the length or pointer fields. And lo and behold, there
were
some warning (not error) messages saying that these parameters were not
valid. No wonder my pointer wasn't working - it hadn't been set by the
""get
storage"" command, so contained garbage.
Apparently you really can't use these parameters with COBOL LE. Bummer.