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  1. ihatecobol

    Index or Subscript?

    Thanks Mingo.
  2. ihatecobol

    Index or Subscript?

    Can anyone give me a "textbook like" explaination of the difference between a index and a subscript?
  3. ihatecobol

    Hi ! I have a JCL for sort and i

    Greenguy71 is right. Replace the 'CH' with 'BI'.
  4. ihatecobol

    FILE ALREADY OPEN-CANNOT OPEN FILE

    Most likely you opened the file previously within the program somewhere. However, if you have a program that uses the same file and it is being run as a previous job step within a PROC or procedure, and that step abends it can leave the file opened. If you are using IBM COBOL on a mainframe...
  5. ihatecobol

    Hi ! I have a JCL which has two

    If the old files are input into step2 have the disposition of these files declared in step2 as (OLD,UNCTLG,KEEP) the new ones would be (NEW,CTLG,DELETE)that way if the step abends the old files will be kept and the new ones will be deleted.
  6. ihatecobol

    Comp-1, Comp-2, Comp-3, Comp-4

    I have never used Comp-1 or Comp-4. Comp-3 stands for packed decimal. The sign is dropped from each byte and placed at the end of the field. IE: F1F2F3 would be 123C. I think Comp-2 or just Comp is binary.

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