Low Value Hex

[Cobby1812]

Morning,
I have what appears to be a really stupid question...but everytime I ask my sofwtare house I get a random response. Basicially I need to create a file as on a server as follows:-


001123456702 50000.00

The point between the 2 and the 5 are supposed to be low values (I have been told I cant use spaces).....how on earth to I get a flat file to show this.

Any clues would be great

 

[k5tm]

Can you provide the record description for this data record, please. Also, what COBOL compiler are you using to produce the data?

Tom Morrison
Hill Country Software

 

[nclouston]

Just assign x'00' to that position - assuming that it is PIC X.


Nic

 

[papadba]

How is this file/data to be used?

LOW-VALUES is not a "printable" value. Showiont the data in HEX will allow someone to "see" the x'00'.

 

[webrabbit]

If the file is a Line Sequential file, by default Micro Focus COBOL (and maybe others) will insert a low-value byte (as an escape code) before any caontrol character in the data (characters < than space). Thus if you accept the default and put a low-value character in the data, you will get two! low-value characters. Upon reading such a file, the low-value (escape) byte will be removed before presenting the data to the application.

 

[BruceMartin]

A couple of possiblities

[ol 1]
[li]Write a program[/li]
[li]Use a Hex Editor[/li]
[li]Use something like the RecordEditor. You will need to setup the file definition. For the Hex-Zero field, define as a binary integer and set it to 0.
[/li]
[li]On the mainframe, use standard SPF editor and put hex mode[/li]
[/ol]

 

[webrabbit]

I think the OP has left the building.