Cobol

Mainframe Question
Fujitsu claims their (incorrect) result is the same as that produced by IBM COBOL on MVS or whatever they run nowadays. Can someone please confirm this? TIA 01 W-Depr-Rem Pic S9(15)V9(2) Comp Value +0. 01 W-Est-Life-Y Pic S9(11)V9(6) Comp Value +5. 01 W-Depr-... 3 Feb 2006 23:18

PowerCobol
How can call a .HLP or .PDF files in Power Cobol Thank you for any help Joe ... 30 Jan 2006 05:24

Arithmetic operations using DFSORT
Using DFOSRT, we can perform arithmetic operations on input fields. OUTFIL OUTREC now allows you to combine fields, decimal constants (+n and -n), operators (MIN, MAX, MUL, DIV, MOD, ADD, SUB) and parentheses to form arithmetic expressions, and place the results in your records as BI, FI, PD, ZD, FS or edited CH ... 26 Jan 2006 06:20

xml acucobol
sto provando a leggere un file xml ma non riesco a venirne fuori ... infatti lancio il wruncbl32 books.acu ma non mi da il risultato ... sicuramente sto sbagliando qualche variabile in runtime ... qualche idicazione ? questo il sorgente identification division. program-id. books. * Copyright (c) 2003 ... 26 Jan 2006 15:24

GoTo in Java
It is interesting that Java, where the word GOTO is reserved but not used, it has a label and a GoTo equivalent to tell us how to exit a multi-layer iteration (perform loop). I wish we had an equivalent in CoBOL. ... 23 Feb 2006 09:37

free implementation? factorial?
Hello, I am teaching a CS course ("Programming and Software Techniques") at the university of Heidelberg. This course uses C++, but I want to give my students also a feeling for other languages. To this end, I have reserved a little bit of time (5-10 minutes of each session) for telling them a little about oth... 17 Jan 2006 15:50

What's causing VSAM error 94?
I received a 94 error on a read-next of an alternate index file. I could not find error 94 in the documentation, but found a reference to it on the Internet. It's either reading past EOF, which I proved was not the case. Or -- It pertains to too many pointers. Has anyone seen this error before? -Thanks ... 9 Jan 2006 20:40

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

[OT] IBM Mainframe DSLIST to Dataset w/ Wildcards?
All righty... here's how we're spending some slow time here. Datasets get generated on a biweekly basis with the format: USERID01.TAnnnnn.Pooo.Ddddhhmm.node .... where nnnnn represents a division, ooo is a pay period, ddd = 'Julian' date, hhmm = time and .node is any one of four possible values. The pri... 6 Jan 2006 13:01

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