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  1. hankjeff

    Printing "line controls"

    When looking at the display ('print preview') of a report containing line controls (horizontal lines) in header, detail, and footer sections of an Access 2002 Report, they all show very well, bright red, and of the desired thickness (up to 4-pt). However, when I actually print the report (hp...
  2. hankjeff

    Formula to determine positive/negative value

    In determining the total of an amount field in all of the records on an input file, I need to either add or subtract the number contained in the amount field based on the value found in another field. That "flag" is either 10 (positive) or 60 (negative) (this was not my idea - the...
  3. hankjeff

    referbacks in Mainframe express(jcl)

    Puth JCL for that step in a PROC, then simply execute the PROC as many times as you want in the jobstream. For example, if you wanted to compile 10 program consecutively, you would simply execute the compile PROC 10 times, with a parameter that contains the program name.
  4. hankjeff

    have an example of Cobol reading EXCEL?

    Save the EXCEL spreadsheet as a comma-delimited file (the extension is ".csv"). Then simply read it, parsing out each field based on the commas. If the COBOL program is on the same platform as the spreadsheet file, just point the program to that file. If the COBOL program is on a...
  5. hankjeff

    Can "PERFORM VARYING" be Interruped

    Yes, depending on the compiler/platform you probably could muck about with the subscript, but if you did and you worked for me, I'd probably fire you unless you left a very lengthy and precise explanation in the program as to why you were doing so. Three years later the programmer who now has to...
  6. hankjeff

    Any free tool to view/export data from AcuCOBOL files?

    By "you must have the FD" I believe the other person was meaning that merely having the data file does you no good, unless you know the layout of the various data elements - example, the first 8 characters are the Customer number, the next 20 are the Customer name, the next 20 are the...

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