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We were using an earlier version (v7.5) of Rational Developer on our Windows XP 32-bit systems, mostly using the command line compiler (cob2.exe). When we got our new laptops, these had Windows 7 64-bit installed and we were forced (administratively) to move to the latest Rational (v9.0)...

I've never liked it when people ask a question, get some response(s), and never tell everyone how it all turned out. So, I am back just to: (a) thank HopNDude for responding; and (b) tell the outcome. It has taken some time to finish setup of my server (life seems to get in the way of these...

Hi All, I am very experienced in many things technical, but am not very savvy on DC and AD. I have had a Windows 2003 Server in my home for many years and I had stumbled through its installation, including it being a DC and an AD. I even had the home PCs logging into the domain (each of my 5...

Marc -- WOW! I tried this and it produced perfect results the very first time. I can't thank you enough for this!

It's not that simple. The package we use is itself source code, and it generates more source code. We would have to identify the source code it generates at various steps and put those into the VCS (ChangeMan in this particular installation), and replace them when the package updates them in...

That's a fair question! We use a third-party package that is a "code generator". After some customization, it generates Cobol programs, but in literally hundreds of separate pieces (many tens of thousands lines of code), which is brought together in a single member containing all the...

Webrabbit -- yeah, I think that's the way we're heading. If we can turn off the pagination totally (and then ignore the COPY statements themselves, which it seems to leave in the listing), it shouldn't be difficult. Thanks for affirming that ...

Thanks, papadba, I'll keep that in mind. I used to know RexX very well, though on the VM/CMS environment (where it all started, I believe) -- about 27 years ago when I was a Systems Programmer (at IBM). Haven't tried it on MVS.

Hi, I have my COBOL code on MVS, broken down into many PDS members, using COPY statements to pull the pieces together in the compile step. I'd like a tool/utility that will resolve all of the COPY statements, replacing them with the COPY'd member, leaving me with a single file that is a...

I thought I'd follow-up with what I did to upgrade the disks in the RAID configuration of my boot drive (also has a data partition with critical user data). I was concerned after reading some of the warnings above, and I couldn't convince myself that I could adjust the partitions later (my...

Slightly off-topic, but I have a lot of experience with the Maxtor 250GB drives -- mine were SATA, which probably is irrelevant. In any case, I had 7 or 8 drive replacements (under warranty) in as many months (and I had only purchased three of them, so you can see that many were repeats). A...

stduc & rvnguy, My thanks to both of you for your quick assistance. Shortly after my original posting, I left the US on a business trip to Singapore, so I can't try anything until I return is another week and a half. If I can ask a follow-up on stduc's response -- are you saying that if I...

My Windows 2003 Server (ASUS Athlon motherboard with two built-in RAID controllers -- one for SATA and one for IDE) has a pair of 250GB SATA drives in Raid 1 (mirror) configuration for the boot drive. I set this up via the RAID BIOS. I now have a pair of 400GB SATA drives to replace the...

Hoinz, Thanks for the response! To play with this, I downloaded Oracle 10 to my PC and tried from there. After some time, I went back to try the original: AL_PER_ADDR_NO POSITION (0154:0163) ZONED(10) NullIf (0154:0154) = X'FF' And ... it worked! I had...

Hello to all! I need to load data into Oracle 8 from an input file that is fixed-length. One of the fields is ZONED (what Cobol would identify as SIGNED). When this field is to be loaded as NULL, then the first byte of its input field has X'FF' in it. When it is not null, then this byte is part...

Hoinz, Thanks for the response. Yes, I am using piping (I think the issue is same for spooling). I had concluded that I could solve the header by exactly what you said -- create a "template" and append/concatenate. However, I also need to place a record length (binary) in front of each...

I am in need of creating a flat file with a "canned" header in it. So, the first SELECT statement I do is a SELECT from DUAL to construct this record. A large number of the bytes are x'00'. After creating this, it appears that these have been changed by something to be all spaces (x'20')...

Dave (really for the benefit of others that might read this): Thanks to your assist on the phone, changing the "||" to "," between my column expressions, and adding "set colsep ''", I am past the 4K restriction. Thanks!!!!!!

Dave, If that is the limitation, then I can reduce the SELECT string significantly by using a pseudonym (or whatever the proper name is) for the table name, as I specify the table name on EVERY column. Would this limit include white space (ie, if I have 10 spaces at the beginning of each...

Dave, You always come through! I've looked into this a bit, and I think I can avoid post-processing the data (to account for decimals in salary) by using something like: load data infile "craig.txt" replace into table client_table ( NAME position( 1:21) CHAR ,ADDRESS position(22:51) CHAR...