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Hi I hope you belongs to the legacy mainframe world. Then, i am glad to have you in my community of "Mainframe Technical Architects". Here is a weblog " http://legacymainframe.wordpress.com/ " where you can keep posted of all the Technical News, Technical upgradation, Expert advices on issues, Polls, Blogs, ... 6 Apr 2008 04:55

Decimal versus binary arithmetic was Re: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL Standard"
Jeff Campbell wrote: DECDIV Source Listing 3-APR-2008 06:13:52 - Compaq COBOL V2.8-1286 Page 1 Source Listing 3-APR-2008 06:13:19 - SYS$SYSDEVICE:[USERS.FROG.COBOL]DECDIV .COB;4 1 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 2 PROGRAM-ID. decdiv. 3 ENVI... 3 Apr 2008 11:43

Decimal versus binary arithmetic was Re: J4 - presentation/discussionon "Future of the COBOL Standard"
Clark F Morris wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:45:10 GMT, "William M. Klein" <wmklein(a)nospam.netcom.com> wrote: Clark, Can you try this (slight) variation - and compile 01 numerator value 1 Comp-5 pic 9(9). 01 denominator value 5 Comp-5 pic 9(9). 01 quotient Comp-5 pic 9(9)v9(4). ... 4 Apr 2008 12:57

Decimal versus binary arithmetic was Re: J4 -presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL Standard"
>>> On 4/1/2008 at 12:43 PM, in message <if05v3503beg04nonbeci3n8eqo2vill79(a)4ax.com>, Clark F Morris<cfmpublic(a)ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:37:12 -0600, Robert <no(a)e.mail> wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:55:10 -0300, Clark F Morris <cfmpublic(a)ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar... 3 Apr 2008 20:52

Packed decimal versus binary was Re: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL Standard"
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:53:23 -0600, Robert <no(a)e.mail> wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:33:00 +1300, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: "Robert" <no(a)e.mail> wrote in message news:6dmrt3dn0hueihi3p996d5n96sts0pgtm1(a)4ax.com... Binary integer arithmetic is 100% accurate. ... 31 Mar 2008 21:14

Decimal versus binary arithmetic was Re: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL Standard"
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:34:51 -0600, Robert <no(a)e.mail> wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:09:44 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:53:23 -0600, Robert <no(a)e.mail> wrote: The others were confused. They thought binary integer was the same as binary floating point. ... 10 Apr 2008 11:18

Printing from M/F COBOL
Hi Chaps An avid reader of this forum for years. Very interesting at times. I have a question I am sure somebody can help me with. I currently look after a customer who use all HP laser printers. 20 years ago we embedded PCL code to control these printers. Setting landscape/portrait, duplex pages, the odd un... 24 Apr 2008 19:50

Did I write a good (efficient) program?
I haven't written COBOL in a number of years and am quite rusty. Recently someone asked my help to write some code to display an IP V6 address in human-readable code. I wrote something, but am not sure if I used the best available techniques. Please have a look at what I wrote and feel free to comment. Backgroun... 4 Apr 2008 19:07

Interesting take on Paradigms (OO vs Procedural)
"Richard" <riplin(a)azonic.co.nz> wrote in message news:c1715df2-76a5-4502-bdd7-23e4ae8f7551(a)d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com... On Mar 29, 1:51 pm, "Rick Smith" <ricksm...(a)mfi.net> wrote: [snip] The book "Simulation Using GPSS", Thomas J. Schriber, 1974, covers the use of General Purpose Simulation System ... 17 Apr 2008 01:12

Confessions of a CoBOL programmer
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:47:46 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf(a)panix.com () wrote: Where I work (yes someone gave me a job) they can not get Cobol programmers under the age of 50 (I am the youngest at 50). Have they tried doubling their rates? Have they offered programmers in other languages training in COBOL... w... 31 Mar 2008 20:39