Re: question about dynamic array

Just noticed...

"Roby66" <NOSPAM@libero.it> wrote in message
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> Hi, I'm roby...
> I'm trying to porting vb array management (redim preserve) to cobol
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[anither message.]..
>Anyway I have to port this vb application on mainframe..
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>I only know new application has to be developed
>using cobol II, I think cobol 85.
>Customer sent me a source code is running on
>their system and I suppose is standard ansi85

???

Not sure I understand your situation entirely, but let me hazard a guess:

Customer sent you COBOL source code of ..what, what they use now?  And you
need to integrate some capability currently available in a VB program into
that software?

Not ever having seen any of this, or even sure if I understand the situation
correctly, two things come to mind...

1. There is such a thing as "Mainframe BASIC".  IIRC, it's not terribly
popular or powerful, but it's out there somewhere.
2. Instead of screwing around with a port, might be easier and surely will
be more maintainable long-term to forget about 'porting,'  bite the bullet
and just write the required logic in COBOL from scratch. (Disclaimer: I am a
notorious critic of 'verb-for-verb' port/translation efforts).

FWIW, if your BASIC is well written, your COBOL code - if equally
well-written - will look a lot like the BASIC code with which you
start.(I've often said "Well-written BASIC looks a lot like well-written
COBOL. Badly-written BASIC looks a lot like, well, badly-written  BASIC".

(Also FWIW: dynamic memory allocation and pointer variables ARE available
with IBM mainrame COBOL).

MCM