PC Application Programming
You can use Mainframe Express to develop programs that run only on the PC,
for example, utilities that help you to exploit the PC environment.
If you want to work on a PC program, you must set the COBOL dialect to
Non-mainframe. Once you have done this, you gain access to many facilities that
only make sense in a PC environment, such as:
- Special formats of the ACCEPT and DISPLAY statements that enable you to
send data to and from the command line
- The Screen Section
- Library routines that you can call in your programs.
Notes:
- You can manipulate only ANSI data in a PC COBOL program.
- If you attempt to run a non-mainframe dialect program using JCL or
TSO commands, the results will be unpredictable.
- If you want to create complete COBOL applications that run on the
PC, and build and link them for other people to use, you should use Net
Express, not Mainframe Express.
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