Problem:
Earlier COBOL products for both Wiindows and Unix products contained a family of Call-by-number routines to read and write characters and attributes to and from the screen. These are not available in Server Express
Resolution:
A lot of the call-by-number routines were replaced by call-by-name routines many years ago, but the call-by-number routines were kept in the product to assist migration. They've now been removed entirely. The replacements for x'B7' and x'B8' are as follows:
B7 0 cbl_read_scr_chars
B7 1 cbl_write_scr_chars
B7 2 cbl_read_scr_attrs
B7 3 cbl_write_scr_chars
B7 4 cbl_write_scr_n_char
B7 5 cbl_write_scr_n_attr
B8 0 cbl_read_scr_chattrs
B8 1 cbl_write_scr_charrts
Refer to the product documentation for full details of how to use these calls.