General facts about
COBOL
to
PL/I
ILC
A COBOL program cannot be called as a function.
The halfword prefix for PL/I varying strings is exposed, so you need to code the COBOL group data item with a halfword in front of the character string.
PL/I supports access to COBOL files via the COBOL option of the ENVIRONMENT attribute.
See
Using storage functions in C to PL/I ILC
for information about how to use
PL/I
's storage facilities with
Language Environment
storage services.
Language Environment
supports the passing of return codes between COBOL and PL/I routines within an ILC application.
Parent topic:
Communicating between COBOL and PL/I