Greetings -- I'm feeling moderately dense this morning, trying to use/remember a feature of COBOL that I haven't touched in years (nor can I find in the docs), and digging through tons of source [mostly not my own] to find an example to trigger the "Aha!" memory is not proving very fruitful...

     How do I get the value of the "parm=" passed on the run command?(*)

I know that (via the "special names" SW0-SW15) I can get specific BITS of the run parm, but I thought there was a way to get the run-parm proper.

basically I'm writing a utility program to retrieve some chunk of data based on a single 3-digit key value; rather than force my jobstreams to look like:

   !run getdata.prog
   123

[which means my program has to deal with display/accept statements and error handling], I want to use

   !run getdata.prog;parm=123

[which will automatically be "available" and of the proper type/range/etc.]

Am I nuts to think that the parm/info values are easily available in HP-COBOL, or did I write some long-lost utility chunk of code to manually reconstruct the "runparm" based on the SWn values and simply forgot "it's not part of what HP offers..."?

Tom

(*) by the same token, how does one get the "info=" string?  Not that I need it for this program, but I might as well "refresh" that section of cranial-core :)

p.s.  Where did the (slightly better) 5.5 version of the mpe/ix docs page go?  I had it bookmarked, but it comes up with a page-not-found; the current 6/6.5/7 version actually went a bit "backwards" with the functionality [and, for that matter, the 6/6.5/7 version points to a 5.0 version of the COBOL manuals...]