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Just a quick general question... What is the consenus of MVS Cobol vs. VSE Cobol ? My brief experience with VSE Cobol was a mess to say the least. I did have some excellent experience with MVS and HP-Unix using AcuCobol. I'm just trying to figure out if I should even mention that I used VSE...

AustinOne, Thanks for resume inquiry. I'll take a chance that you might have a lead on another contract gig. I read some of your other posts and you mentioned AcuCobol. It turns out that back in 1999 I used AcuCobol in an HP-Unix conversion project for the NYCTA. I happen to have an...

Thanks again Marc for the good closing commentary. It was the best post yet. In fact, I did see that one of the other remaining contractors at the job site recieved an e-mail description (specs) of what he was supposed to do with his programming assignment. I never did so that's part of the...

Thanks everyone for your comments and war stories. The latest news on my consulting gig is that yesterday the technical lead for the consulting firm I work for had my mainframe password revoked. I was accused of writing some bad code, etc. I talked to the project manager and told her exactly...

Does anyone have any suggestions about writing Cobol programs with little or no specs ? I.e. I'm in the middle of a complex conversion project that has a multitude of business rules that are creating some logjams for a CIS - PeopleSoft conversion effort. The Cobol programs are essentially...

Yes, Dhect has it right. For UNIX fans I could compare mainframe JCL to shell scripts that set up environmental variables, run executables, etc. JCL has a SORT utility, IDCAMS for VSAM files in MVS and VSE/ESA, IEBGENER to print or create flat files in MVS, IEFBR14 to delete flat files, etc...

Yep, that's right. Just a single level control break. I had to set one up yesterday. Be sure to re-initialize your state counter to zeroes after each control break. You probably know that anyway. I haven't written Cobol in over 7 months until a week ago so I'm still trying to get back up to...

Thanks for the tip about initializing the ws field to zero. I came up with the same conclusion after I posted my second message and before I read your message. However, it's good to create a discussion with you and it seems that I can get more answers in a timely manner than I can where I...

I put in displays and the program bombs just before an IF statement. Here is what it looks like: IF PV-POLE-CODE = WS-PV-POLE-CODE AND W-PAN = WS-PV-PAN AND PV-POLE-CODE NOT = SPACES Both pole code fields are Pic X(01). W-Pan and WS-PV-Pan are Pic 9(9). At the time the program bombs...

Good Evening Fellow Cobol Programmers, I'm an MVS cobol programmer who has been thrown into a conversion project. We are doing a PeopleSoft conversion from VSE/ESA to an AIX box. I've never worked with a VSE/ESA machine. Only MVS/ESA 9000 series mainframes. Today I was attempting to set up a...

You might try QMF if you have it at your installation instead of SPUFI for a stored procedure.