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Standard COBOL Subroutines

System-wide standard subroutines should have names beginning with the letter ‘Z’. You may use the COBOL COPY statement to include the subroutines if you wish. Standard subroutines for the following functions are given below:

• Message Sending Subroutine—This subroutine calls a CA 2E Toolkit program to send a message to the calling program’s message queue.

  V2R2 of OS/400 has a message sending API QMHSNDPM you should use instead.

• Message Executing Subroutine—This subroutine calls a standard subprogram to retrieve a request string stored in a message file and execute it. The program used to execute the string is the OS/400 QCMDEXC program.