Address Of and Usage as Pointer

ap_mainframes · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:51 pm

Hi,
I want to know whats the diffrence between ' Address of ' clause in COBOL and 'Usage as pointer' in COBOL.

For example I am passing two variables/records from Program A to program B.
I want to get the address of second record.
How can I do that using the above two clauses???

Thanks,
ap_mainframes.

BuildersHeaven · New User Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 2

You can use the "Address of" to assign a variable defined as "Pointer", I suppose...

The use of Pointers in cobol is not so advanced, I suggest to you to only limitate to the Linkage area.

ap_mainframes · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:27 am

This is not very clear..
Any examples/documents you can give on this???

ap_mainframes

r2k1984 · New User Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 69 Location: chennai

hai
ithink there is a idetifier named set ,by which is used to get the address of the variable very speedly.s use of these cammonds are accepted and the pointer gives the address of the cariable.but while searching at the first time the set variable finds it that the pointer variable