oldcoboler
Programmer
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 simple control break.
I think the program bombed with the return code = 7 (like an MVS SOC7 ??) on the following:
IF acct-nbr = ws-acct-nbr
and pole-type-code = ws-pole-type-code
and pole-type-code > space <<< I think this is the problem
Should I have coded ??:
and pole-type-code not = space
Please let me know. It's a pic x(01) field.
The project manager says she thinks shes not getting her money's worth with regard to my Cobol skills. All of my old Cobol texts are lost in storage somewhere so I don't have any real good resources.
They canned one of my fellow consultants from the same firm that I work for yesterday for slow coding, so the pressure is on.
I think I'll try half.com too and try and procure some old Cobol texts.
I've haven't looked at a Cobol program in 7 months so I'm a bit rusty.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Oldcoboler
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 simple control break.
I think the program bombed with the return code = 7 (like an MVS SOC7 ??) on the following:
IF acct-nbr = ws-acct-nbr
and pole-type-code = ws-pole-type-code
and pole-type-code > space <<< I think this is the problem
Should I have coded ??:
and pole-type-code not = space
Please let me know. It's a pic x(01) field.
The project manager says she thinks shes not getting her money's worth with regard to my Cobol skills. All of my old Cobol texts are lost in storage somewhere so I don't have any real good resources.
They canned one of my fellow consultants from the same firm that I work for yesterday for slow coding, so the pressure is on.
I think I'll try half.com too and try and procure some old Cobol texts.
I've haven't looked at a Cobol program in 7 months so I'm a bit rusty.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Oldcoboler