Jeff Sohrt asked...

>Is there a way to pass literal parameters to a cobol routine in an NMOBJ?
>i.e.
>call 'some_thing' using this, that, 3, more.

In summary, P. 11-15 of the COBOLII/XL manual states...

You may, UNLESS the called program is COBOL.

>Also does anyone have a working (short) example of a 'nested' program,
where
>the two programs are compiled and liked together? It's been awhile sine I
>wrote one. Feel free to e-mail attachment direct.

Not quite sure what you mean, but basically you compile the source for each
program then link the object files together in linked.

E.G. :linked from=object1,object2 to=program;rl=your RL library

Hope this helps.

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