Duane Percox writes:
>There might be another 'gotcha' to worry about. If I remember correctly,
>COBOL in the absence of a SYSINTR definition will use a shortint if you use
>this construct and choose a num_value <= 32767:
>
>    CALL "\Foo" USING MY-DISPLAY-FIELD  \num_value\
>          GIVING ANOTHER-COMP-FIELD.
 
This isn't the case for native-mode COBOL; I assumed, possibly erroneously,
that the original poster was working in native mode.
 
-- Bruce
 
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