The Base Toolkit, Personal Edition

The Base Toolkit, Personal Edition allocates libraries used by all of our toolkits. In addition, there are sample programs provided to demonstrate handling parm data from the JCL execute statement, reading and writing fixed length record files, reading variable length record files, calling subroutines passing parameters, and being a subroutine and receving parameters.

We also provide a few callable routines that you might find handy in general:

• Get today's date and format it as mm/dd/yy, or mm/dd/yyyy, yy/mm/dd, or yyyy/mm/dd
• Pass 12 bytes of data and get back the data in hex as xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
• Clear the screen from a REXX exec or CLIST
• Debug subroutine calls by displaying what is really being passed

Here are the functions demonstrated in each language for this Toolkit:

• Accept a PARM value from the EXEC statement and echo it back to the job listing
• Read non-vsam files and write non-vsam files
• Read Variable length files
• Call a subroutine, passing string(s) as arguments
• Be a subroutine, recieving string(s) as parameter(s)

Each toolkit provides sample working programs written in Assembler, COBOL, C, and PL/I (except for language-specific Toolkits).

For more details about the Base Toolkit, look on this page