Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual
DNS Programming Example, COBOL85
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 SELECT DNS-MANAGER-FILE
 ASSIGN TO $ZDNS.#ZSPI
 FILE STATUS IS DNS-MANAGER-STATUS.
 DATA DIVISION.
 FILE SECTION.
 FD DNS-MANAGER-FILE
 EXTERNAL
 RECORD CONTAINS 6 TO 4196 CHARACTERS
 LABEL RECORDS ARE OMITTED.
 COPY ZDNS-DDL-MSG-BUFFER IN $FALL.ZSPIDEF.ZDNSCOB
 REPLACING ZDNS-DDL-MSG-BUFFER BY DNS-IO-BUF.
 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
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* Manager file status
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 01 DNS-MANAGER-STATUS EXTERNAL PIC XX.
 77 SPI-STATUS NATIVE-2.
 77 RETCODE NATIVE-2.
 COPY ZDNS-DDL-MSG-BUFFER IN $FALL.ZSPIDEF.ZDNSCOB
 REPLACING ZDNS-DDL-MSG-BUFFER BY DNS-PROMPT-BUF.
 EXTENDED-STORAGE SECTION.
 COPY ZSPI-DDL-TOKENCODE IN $FALL.ZSPIDEF.ZSPICOB.
 COPY CONSTANTS IN $FALL.ZSPIDEF.ZSPICOB.
 LINKAGE SECTION.
 COPY DNS-RESULT.
 COPY ZDNS-DDL-MSG-BUFFER IN $FALL.ZSPIDEF.ZDNSCOB
 REPLACING ZDNS-DDL-MSG-BUFFER BY DNS-REQUEST-BUF.
 COPY ZDNS-DDL-MSG-BUFFER IN $FALL.ZSPIDEF.ZDNSCOB
 REPLACING ZDNS-DDL-MSG-BUFFER BY DNS-RESPONSE-BUF.
 77 DNS-MOVE-CONTEXT-FLAG PIC X.
 88 DONT-MOVE-CONTEXT VALUE IS "N".
 88 MOVE-CONTEXT VALUE IS "Y".
 PROCEDURE DIVISION
 USING DNS-RESULT
 DNS-REQUEST-BUF
 DNS-RESPONSE-BUF
 DNS-MOVE-CONTEXT-FLAG.
 DECLARATIVES.
 MANAGER-IO-ERROR SECTION.
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* Set DNS-RESULT to indicate that an I/O error has occured; set
* DNS-ERROR-NUMBER to GUARDIAN-ERR
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