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Passing character data

z/OS Language Environment Writing Interlanguage Communication Applications
SA38-0684-00

Character data can be received by a Fortran routine only when the routine that receives the data declares the data to be of fixed length. Therefore, the following form cannot be used by a Fortran routine to receive character data:
CHARACTER*(*)

In addition, the occurs depending on clause cannot be specified in the COBOL declaration of the character data that is passed to the Fortran routine.

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