"John Pitman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 3. No - the image open ID (2 bytes in front of base name) contain a 16bit
> index into the data segments of THAT process, and therefore cannot be
passed
> to another process. They can be passed to other called routines of that
> process only.

Actually, Suresh wrote "program", not "process".  Depending on what he
meant, he may well be understanding correctly.

In COBOL, calling and called routines are properly referred to as programs,
and it is quite common for one program to open a database and pass the ID to
another program.  In COBOL terminology we would say they are two programs in
the same run unit.  In MPE terminology we would say they are two procedures
in the same process.

Walter  "With appropriate definitions, all statements can be made true."

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