ILEXPOSEGROUP

Determines how group parameters passed BY VALUE to a method or parameterized section are exposed within JVM COBOL programs.

Restriction: This directive is supported for JVM COBOL only.

Syntax:

>>---ILEXPOSEGROUP"option"---------><

Parameters:

The permissible values for option are:

STRING: Groups are exposed as string objects.
BYTEARRAY: Groups are exposed as byte arrays.

Properties:

Default:	ILEXPOSEGROUP"STRING"
IDE equivalent:	None.

Comments:

Exposing groups as byte arrays can produce more performant code and avoid conversion errors if the group contains characters that should not be handled as part of a string (such as binary numbers).