Cobol

note to Charles Hottel
Sorry Charlie , I can't respond within the thread because there are too many headers and the news server won't accept it. Programmers tend to be a critical bunch and are often hardest on themselves. Too critical. Too perfectionist. It helps with the work but can be hard on people. I am tyring to... 28 Sep 2008 03:36

Ping: Robert
> Why do you need offsets? I've needed them only once, when creating a record description for ODBC access to flat files. offsets came in handy when working with dump listing (and i thought you an oldtymer...) sss --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 080926-0, 09/2... 30 Sep 2008 00:13

Pete Dashwood
"SeaSideSam" <Sam(a)Sea.Side> wrote in message news:1c587$48dde0be$6214c5e7$14321(a)ALLTEL.NET... Ref: http://primacomputing.co.nz/cobdata sss here. i've been going thru the change and am making changes on an hourly basis: replacing opera with chrome and grabit with thunderbird. i have been informed t... 27 Sep 2008 08:57

Ping: Pete Dashwood
Ref: http://primacomputing.co.nz/cobdata sss here. i've been going thru the change and am making changes on an hourly basis: replacing opera with chrome and grabit with thunderbird. i have been informed that both steps were necessary. i am not convinced. in "robert's original code" some pic clauses have... 27 Sep 2008 14:04

Microsoft Outlook Web Access
"Charles Hottel" <chottel(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:FLadnWjGKZ_-LUDVnZ2dnUVZ_tPinZ2d(a)earthlink.com... I thought Microsoft hired only 'the best' programmers. You always hear of the hard questions that they ask job applicants. OO programming and .NET are supposed to be the cat's meow, just a... 28 Sep 2008 07:39

date processing in z/OS
In VSE there is a "DATE card" that can be placed in the JCL with any valid date, and when you use "ACCEPT FROM DATE" you will retrieve this date instead of the actual system date. Apparently this is not available on z/OS. We have jobs that run early in the morning but are really part of the previous day's busi... 9 Oct 2008 13:31

CALL using OMITTED
So we now have a small z/OS system, in addition to our z/VSE system, so I've been trying out some features in Enterprise COBOL for z/OS that are missing in COBOL for VSE/ESA. One feature I've always thought might be useful is CALL with the OMITTED argument. So I wrote the following: ID DIVISION. ... 1 Oct 2008 02:53

Kiwiland response to Richard- problem viewing license
Pete Dashwood wrote: (snip) I'm pleased to report that these pages are now working in Firefox. Just for clarity, here is the URL I used: http://primacomputing.co.nz/cobdata I can now view the COBOL source code using Firefox 3.0.2, but when I click on the button to view the license, all it get is a b... 27 Sep 2008 02:52

ACU BENCH 8 - OPEN VMS acu connect
hi everyone, i´d like to connect my acu bench 8 with open vms via acu connect, but it seems not to work, does acu bench support the connection to openvms? does anyone have any experiences with that? tks for helping mario ... 29 Sep 2008 03:43

Speaking of Fonts... a question
I can't believe I haven't stumbled upon this before, but I'm having some difficulty finding a font setting in Windows to print at 6 LPI (lines per inch). We're converting checks to print on a laser instead of an impact printer. It's pretty standard stuff... three checks per page with 3-1/2 inch spacing from one ... 26 Sep 2008 12:31