Cobol

Data Representation in COBOL
Hi All, Here is a sample code... A PIC X(04) VALUE IS 'KLMN'. B REDEFINES A PIC S9(04). ADD 1000 TO B. DISPLAY B. This gives 134E as answer. Could anyone please let me know how the data is actually stored and how this operation is performed. Thanks and Regards, Raveendra. ... 15 Jan 2006 00:45

UML and COBOL
Is ANYBODY here working on a site where they use OO COBOL and object modelling? I'm particularly interested to hear from people who have UML (possibly Rational toolset) experience. I know the Java people will have this, but I am specifically looking to see if OO COBOL can still be justified as a developmen... 5 Jan 2006 13:02

CA-Realia II Workbench COBOL
Hi I'm learning to program in Cobol at the moment. But the program i'm working in is CA-Realia II Workbench COBOL version 3.0.55. I have a problem with compiling the program. I can't seem to find the right options to compile a program with this tool. Can anybody help me pls. Thx alot Keggy ... 13 Dec 2005 08:24

Tandem
Hi I would like to know the differences between usual Cobol and Tandem Cobol. Thanks for any help Robert -- 'Vom Standpunkt eines Beamtenrechtlers aus betrachtet ist der Tod die sch?rfstwirkenste aller bekannten, langfristig wirkenden Formen der vollst?ndigen Dienstunf?higkeit.' aus: Kommentar zum Beamt... 2 Dec 2005 16:40

UNSTRING performance issue
Given a delimited string of variable length (string-variable), suppose you are interested in the nth value in the string. I'm currently using the following solution: MOVE "," TO delimiter-variable MOVE 1 TO string-pointer PERFORM n TIMES UNSTRING string-variable DELIMITED BY delimiter-variable I... 3 Dec 2005 21:36

OO Factory
Oliver, One of your questions posed in your reply was "Did you mean to post this to comp.lang.cobol". You're damn right I did !. Sequence - originally following up on my query about Factory thought I'd post to javahelp asking for comment so I created a DRAFT. Then I saw you answering topics in javahelp. S... 28 Nov 2005 16:39

COBOL-two-level table
Hello, new to this group. I am taking COBOL and the topic is multidimensional tables. We are Loading a two-level table from a input file. There are no indexes. We are required to use subscripts. Does anyone have an example on how to declare the table in the data division and working storage section. I think I have ... 2 Dec 2005 23:53

Cobol books & experiences
LS, I'm at the point of buying one or two books on COBOL development. I've found lots of books on this language, and from the outline they all seem interesting. Some of those are a bit older (from the mid '80s) which tend to be a bit 'out-dated'. But as always, one book is better than the other. So I'm interest... 7 Dec 2005 09:49

Accessing a VSAM file
Hi, I have a VSAM file having 4 fields like this - --------------------------------------------- Emp ID Start Age End Age Rate --------------------------------------------- 124789 1 10 2.32 124789 11 45 6.45 124789 46 99 9.37 245696 1 10 0.25 245696 11 25 1.24 245696 26 99 7.25 ------------------------------... 27 Nov 2005 19:22

Recursive Call
Hi, i've a big problem with the recursives call under Fujitsu Cobol.Net. It'happen an exception for recursive call and i don't know how to resolve it! Do it exist a work-around for this problem? thank's ... 12 Nov 2005 11:50