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Thanks to all for your responses! I have done a little more looking around on the IBM web site and I think you are correct that you can't use the SORT command to sort a working storage table (which is what I need to do). It's only for sorting files. Looks like I'll have to use a bubble sort or...

Thanks for your response. We are using Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 4.1.0. Our entire batch flow is currently statically linked. We have a driver program that has many programs called from there and then those programs call other programs etc. Uually, the driver will open all the files (or call...

We have a coding standard that we are not supposed to use the SORT command in COBOL programs (we're using Enterprise COBOL). I've asked around as to why we have this standard and the only reply is that they heard it used a lot of CPU time and cost a lot. Does anyone know if this is true? Is...

My system uses static batch calls for almost all existing programs. For new programs, however, they want us to use dynamic calls where we can. We are creating some new programs that we want to use dynamic calls for, but we are also calling some existing programs statically. My question is...