OS calls in IBM Visual Age Cobol for AIX 1

[mrobbo]

Is it possible to make a call to the Operating System (ie AIX) using IBM's Visual Age for Cobol. I would like to be able to execute a script from within a Cobol program.

Cheers,
Robbo.

 

[butler]

Try this:

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 MY-RUN-COMMAND.
10 MY-RUN-NAME PIC X(30).
10 FILLER PIC X VALUE X"00".

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
MOVE "myscript.sh" TO MY-RUN-NAME.
CALL "SYSTEM" USING MY-RUN-COMMAND.

Good luck!
bill [sig][/sig]

 

[mrobbo]

okay, I've done this and the program comiles OK but then fails at the link step "Undefined symbol .SYSTEM". Am I missing somthing in my environment setup?

Mark

P.S. This is the IBM Cobol Set for AIX version 1.1 [sig][/sig]

 

[butler]

Sorry,

maybe "SYSTEM" is specific to Microfocus. I don't know of another way. Unless you can call a 'C' function from your cobol. In that case you could call the system() function...or call a C program that then calls system()?

bill

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