I am using QCMDEXC in COBOL to execute a QShell command like this:
01 PROGRAM-VARIABLES.
05 CL-CMD PIC X(33)
VALUE "STRQSH CMD('LS')".
05 PACK-VAL PIC 9(10)V9(5) COMP-3
VALUE 16.
MAINLINE.
CALL "QCMDEXC" USING CL-CMD PACK-VAL.
The LS is being executed and the result is shown in the screen. However, I cannot find anywhere or come up with a way of reading that out put, in this case a list of files/folders from "unix" into COBOL again. (I verified the command is correctly launched by COBOL, because if I change it by STRQSH CMD('LS>fromcobol.txt'), the file 'fromcobol.txt' is created with the correct output, but I don't know how to retrieve that output into the same COBOL program... I am very ignorant of COBOL, I started learning today and it took me very long just to launch the command...)
Thanks a lot for any help...
There's a thread in the archives of the midrange.com COBOL400 mailing list about reading IFS files in COBOL. Here's a post from that thread with a sample program. https://archive.midrange.com/cobol400-l/200010/msg00006.html