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Status Planned for future release
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Categories z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 15, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Add a Descriptor and/or Route Code to DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE like in PL/I to do WTO (ASM)

Today, the DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE statement has a default Desciptor Code of 2 and a Route Code of 3. For automated log processing, it is important to be able to specify these codes. The only way today is to call an Assembler program performing WTO. PL/I already has this feature implemented : a DISPLAY(WTO) compiler option to specify the authorized values and a DISPLAY statement with sub-options.

COBOL

DISPLAY 'Hello World!' UPON CONSOLE

Assembler

HELLO    CSECT                              
        USING HELLO,15                     
        SAVE (14,12)                       
        WTO 'HELLO WORLD!',DESC=(11)       
        RETURN (14,12),RC=0                
        END

PL/I

*PROCESS  DISPLAY(WTO(ROUTCDE(2,3,11),DESC(3,7,11,13)));        
MSGWTO: PROC                 OPTIONS(MAIN) ;                  
 DECLARE                                                      
  My_Name     Char(20);                                           
  My_Name = 'Hello World!';                                     
 display(My_Name) ROUTCDE(3) DESC(11);                                                 
End MSGWTO;

There is also the CICS example as per the documentation

EXEC CICS
WRITE OPERATOR
TEXT(data-value)
TEXTLENGTH(data-value)
ROUTECODES(data-value)
NUMROUTES(data-value)
...

 

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Basil Kanneth
    Reply
    |     Apr 19, 2023

    This Idea is being accepted and will be updated once planned for a future release.

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