hi Everybody!

   thanx for those participating in the discussion and providing valuable
   help to newbies like me.

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   FILENAME known at RunTime
   FILENAME is NOT known at COMPILE time.
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   C, C++, Java provide a file name that can be specified at RunTime.
   Where as the way the FD and File Sections in COBOL are,
    we have to specify the file name at COMPILE time.
   We have to design our applications around this "feature/limitation".
   Has anybody, worked around this, using some other "tricks".
   JCL is one way, but we donot want to get into JCL stuff.
   How does one do it in a more elegant way?



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   HP3000 buffer sizes etc,...
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   We have to read this data from a THIRD PARTY software objects.
   And these Objects can run into 1 or 2 or 4 or somtimes even 7 Megs of Data.
   Do I have to define such a HUGE working Storage Area, to read the
   Object data Into?

   I could define a 1K or 2K kind of Buffers and tested my code on AS400.

   How will the scenario change when it becomes, a 1 MEG buffer?
    1.   What are the issues involved.
    2.   Can we do it?

   Some geeks in my office are playing "C++, JAVA vs  COBOL"  politics  in
    issues like these.    Well its not new anyways.      :)

   thanx in advance.
-Mary

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