I am looking for a way to "downlight" columns in Notepad++. the COBOL compiler ignores the first 6 columns and all characters starting from column 73 (to column 80, 81+ is ignored anyway). The seventh character has a special meaning (comment,debug, ... ). The 8th to 11th characters have also a special meaning. for code-viewing it is ...
In the past, I suffered through a course on COBOL in order to get a grade. Some people have suggested that, although nasty, this language still has a lot of relevance in the job market. My question: Is it even worth keeping up on COBOL? If so, are there any FOSS compilers you recommend? Thanks ...
Hi all, I'm uploading an ebcdic file(converted from ascii) from Windows OS to Mainframe. My problem is that when I checked the file after uploading it, I see alot of new lines. When I tried to check it with its hex dump I discovered that when mainframe sees a x'15' it translates it into a newline. In the file there are packed decimals s...
I am getting the message "Stack Overflow" while running REBUILD.EXE in cobol85 under Windows XP. This command was working nicely up to Windows 98. This command is used to recreate key file for Indexed Sequential file (ISAM). What is causing this problem? How can I work around it or fix it? ...
I have been using COBOL 85 for a long time, including work with merging COBOL and Z80 assembly. However traditional COBOL doesn't support multi-user/shareable (ie can run concurrently from various terminals) concepts. Can anyone recommend a newer version of COBOL that will let me rewrite my existing code with minimal effort? Is there ...
Sample output: Prod id: XXXXXX Prod desc: Prod qty Prod price Do you want to delete this record? By just entering the ID I can access the information about it and ask me if am I going to delete the record. Can anyone help me? I am a bit new in Cobol. I am using 1985 cobol and running it in Windows Vista OS. ...
Duplicate of: How can i delete an individual record using cobol How can I delete an individual record using cobol? I am using cobol85 on Windows Vista OS. ...
We plan to migrate an old IBM/COBOL/DB2 legacy app to a Solaris/Oracle/C++ "setuped" world. My specific questions here are: are there any experiences with tools able to analyze COBOL code in a more model driven view? (e.g. data flow analysis, code flow analysis, cross/hyperref listings, pretty printing) is openCOBOL a real chance to go...
On the mainframe using Enterprise Cobol for z/OS, is it possible to dynamically CALL a Cobol Dyamic link library (DLL) program from a cobol program that has been compiled with NODLL? ...
The Cobol's SEARCH keyword can be used to search one dimensional arrays indexed. But I think this SEARCH is having some disadvantages when used for searching 2-d arrays. We can search using PERFORM loop also but is there a better way of utilizing SEARCH for 2-d arrays. Which one do you propose? ...
I have a project that is requiring extensive use of a data source that only exists as what appears to be a copy book. For instance, 01 CMT-COMM-MSTR-EXTRACT-RECORD. 05 CMT-FIXED-AREA-1. 10 CMT-COMMUNITY-RECORD-KEY. 15 CMT-ALTERNATE-KEY. 20 CMT-ALTERNATE-KEY-STATE ...
while compiling in Fujitsu COBOL 3.0 i m getting a error saying c://cobol/sample2.cbl file does not exist or having an invalid file name or file is used by another program. but the file is present in the exact location and is not used by any other prog. can any1 tell what could be the problem ...
while running cobol prog in Fujitsu COBOL 3.0 an error is occuring saying that F3BIPRCT.dll is not found. what can be the problem. ...
How to compare two files in Cobol, both files having duplicate records. can any1 give pseudo code. The code has to work in duplicate record condition ...
Hey, everyone. I'm having a bit of trouble in a coding project that I'm trying to tackle in the zOS environment using COBOL. I need to read a file in and put them into an indexed table (I know there will be less than 90 records). The thing that is throwing me is that we are bound by the parameters of the project to use a variable cal...
I love spending my time investigating cool features of languages, even if I won't have a chance to use them anytime soon, but keep hearing only bad things about Cobol, but I'm sure it must of had some nice features for it to become as important as it did. So what would be some good features that could be learnt from Cobol? ...
More specifically I am looking for tools for IBM Enterprise Cobol. ...
I have a COBOL exe program which calls a COBOL dll which in turn calls a COBOL program using a dos interrupt 'x91 - the calling program uses an 'x91' to activate an EXE file as if it were typed in as an operating system command line entry. The security program which wraps my cobol code is a third party program which wraps around my pr...
I am a fairly junior programmer and have the task of interviewing an experienced mainframe COBOL programmer for a position doing C++ development for Windows Mobile. By experienced I mean that the candidate's entire programming career has been COBOL. I am not biased against any particular language, just slightly concerned about my abil...
Ok, so I am having some trouble figuring out how to get IEBGENER working in the way that I want it to. I should preface all this by saying that I am running IEBGENER in a z/OS environment on an academic mainframe. Now, I have three JCL procedures (PROC) inline to some COBOL code that I am working with, and I need to stick IEBGENER in a...