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Question
Can you put more than one subroutine into a shared library and call it dynamically?
Cause
The COBOL Programming Guide documents how to use shared objects library (files that are suffixed with .so) in chapter 28. There is an explanation on how to use them with static calls but not with dynamic calls.
Answer
It is not possible to put more than one subroutine into a shared library then call it dynamically.
Support does not exist in this version of COBOL for AIX.
You must compile and link each subroutine into its own executable binary file.
Put all of those binaries into a directory, then set the environment variable COBPATH to point to it.
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