Bitwise Operations in COBOL

[dpaynter]

Has anyone ever seen or developed a good way to do bitwise operations on a mainframe using COBOL? I'm looking to accomplish the same types of bitwise operations with COBOL that are currently available in C++/Java such as OR, XOR, AND, & SHIFT. So far, the solution is to create a C++ subroutine to run on the mainframe, but that requires many subroutine calls from the COBOL program. We're looking for a more eloquent solution. Any ideas?

Thanks

Dan

 

[fredericofonseca]

Doing a search on the forums is always a MUST before posting.

see thread209-35863

Regards

Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com

 

[WMK]

You don't say WHICH mainframe, but assuming an IBM mainframe (z/OS in particular) running in a curerently supported environement (i.e. with LE), then you can use the LE callable services.

See (for a starting place)

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ceea3160/2.1.1

and related pages.

Bill Klein