vb.net and cobol.net - passing filenames

From: ari (unikoski_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/28/05

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    I will need to transfer a number of mainframe cobol programs to a
    windows environment (fujitsu cobol.net), and write a vb.net control
    program to call them.

    The cobol programs are called repeatedly for different files: the cobol
    programs don't care, as they access the files using

    "select input-file assign to infile"

    where infile (on the mainframe) is a DDNAME and the physical filename
    is a DSNNAME.

    Under Micro-focus I could do this by setting an environment variable
    setting DDNAME=DSNNAME and it works fine.

    Is is possible to do the same here - i.e. have the VB.NET set
    environment variables and the cobol program will use to get the
    physical filename? Is there another option?

    I noticed the post

    http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.cobol/browse_thread/thread/fa58209d23c06409/c0696c17c6069cd9?q=FILENAME+FUJITSU+COBOL+SELECT&rnum=12#c0696c17c6069cd9

    that suggests this will work - but will I always be bothered by the
    window popping up the post is asking about - or is is smart enough not
    to open the window if it has all the environment variables it needs?

    Unfortunately at the moment I don't yet have Fujistu so its hard for me
    to make tests at the moment.

    Thanks,

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