Re: dynamic calling statically linked moduled in IBM cobol

From: Harley (dennis.harleyNoSpam_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/06/03 

Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:58:49 GMT

"drosenbe0813" <drosenbe0813@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:6bfe645b.0312040553.2c866aa2@posting.google.com...
| First...you must understand that it usually is not the applications
| people's choice to be on older compilers...somehow corporate profits
| get put ahead of keeping the applications people up to speed (and in
| the corner office's inhabitants mind...if it ain't broke, don't fix
| it!.)
|
| But in our case, the application in question is running an IMS/DC
| environment and the systems people are having a hard time getting
| dynamic linking working without a HUGE performance hit. I have
| architected an enhanceable system, which must fit into an existing
| application, which depends upon 'dynamically' calling submodules to do
| different database access calls. Because of the current environment,
| we are forced to statically link our modules together. I was hoping to
| gain at least some flexibility in the calling module (i.e. not having
| an ever expanding EVALUATE statement), while maintaining the
| performance which static linking affords.

Keep this in your "future reference" folder.
Procedure Pointers may decrease the performance hit with dynamically linked
modules.

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