
length of subroutine names
Quote:
Kirk Bradley writes:
> Ok.. I see the 30 character INTERNAL name stuff. Does ANSI require
> that the OS support 30 character EXTERNAL names (program id)? IBM
> limits you to 8
The IBM COBOL for MVS & VM (formerly COBOL/370) compiler allows for long
EXTERNAL names, as well as lower case and mixed case external names. To
make this work in the MVS / OS/390 environment (which still requires 8
character names), you use a program called the pre-linker. Among other
tasks, this program creates 8 character names from your up-to-30-character
and lower-, mixed-, or upper-case external program names.
Regards,
Steve Comstock
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