Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi,

I should not be mistaken if I'd say - that somebody has already coded a cobol program to generate a banner for printing. Where the text of the banner is provided by the parameter. For example, I would like my banner to say TOOL. The banner Cobol program will generate a big T pattern, the O pattern etc. for each letter of the input.

Is there such some sample/standard Cobol program which I can download and use?

look at http://www.cbttape.org

Thanks enrico but it lookslike I clould not really find the file you might be referring to:
http://www.google.com/custom?q=banner&s ... bttape.org

I was not referring to a specific file or to a ready to run snippet

You will have to search a bit Yourself

cbtf1 contains a detailed description of the content of every file of the CBT tape

for example in file 136 there is an assembler program called BANNER
where You can find how to call the IBM block letter routine ( IEFSD095 )
and do the same from Your cobol program

Thanks for the direction enrico. I'll work it out.