004 illegal file name 3

[bianca]

Hi, that's my problem:
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID.
BEISP13.
AUTHOR.
D. GOLDEN.
DATE-WRITTEN.
September 29, 1986.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
FILE-CONTROL.
SELECT ZEILENAUSGABE-DAT ASSIGN TO S-OUTPUT.

DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.
FD ZEILENAUSGABE-DAT
LABEL RECORDS ARE OMITTED.
01 ZEILEN-SATZ PICTURE X(26).

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
AOOO-AUSGABE-NAME-UND-ADRESSE.
OPEN OUTPUT ZEILENAUSGABE-DAT.
MOVE 'DONALD G. GOLDEN' TO ZEILEN-SATZ.
WRITE ZEILEN-SATZ.
MOVE 'CIS DEPARTMENT' TO ZEILEN-SATZ.
WRITE ZEILEN-SATZ.
MOVE 'CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY' TO ZEILEN-SATZ.
WRITE ZEILEN-SATZ.
MOVE 'CLEVELAND, OHIO 44115' TO ZEILEN-SATZ.
WRITE ZEILEN-SATZ.
CLOSE ZEILENAUSGABE-DAT.
STOP RUN.
What's wrong?
Micro Focus Publishing
Personal Cobol, Version 2.0.02
bianca

 

[dhecht]

For 0S/390, the following rules apply to the assignment name:

The name can contain from 1 - 8 characters.
The name can contain the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9.
The leading character must be alphabetic.

If Micro Focus COBOL is adhering to these rules, then that's the problem.

 

[dhecht]

The hyphen in the assignment-name, that is......

 

[KidHoss]

What is "S-OUTPUT"? How is it defined? What OS is this running under? I believe this to be a run time error, not a compile error therefore "S-OUTPUT" must be assigned some kind of value that is valid in the operating system you are using. If that is DOS then the name must be DOS compliant. If it is some flavor of Windows then it must be Windows compliant. It must fully qualify the path to where the file resides or where it will reside once the file is written and closed.

 

[dixi]

In DOS/Windows environment try

SELECT ZEILENAUSGABE-DAT ASSIGN TO "LISTE".

By this you will create a file with the name LISTE in your current directory.

Regards
Dixi