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I had earlier asked about a this problem(unexpected runtime behaviour in VA COBOL dll). thread209-863672 Now it's a different error, the abend(silent termination at one point, no messages) occurs when nr. of suprogram(dll) invocations exceeds a large nr.(80000). I could get rid of error by...

Hi, I would like to see COBOL 2000 Sample programs. Any pointers to this would be helpful. Also I would like to know how COBOL2000 is different from IBM Enterprise COBOL? thanks. Regards cobp

thanks cliveC First link contains many metric definitions where as others are not related to metric I just want to know the definition of these metrics. I know these metric were available for the product PATHVU Any body have experiences?

Hi, I would like to know the the COMPLIEXITY metric definitions(Mccabe) 1. ESSENTIAL COMPLEXITY 2. PERCENT STRUCTURED Any pointers or information would be helpful. thanks.

Dimandja, Thanks a lot for the links.

Hi, where can I find refrences to Tandem cobol (syntax, documentation etc.) I searched in the net, but could not locate one. thanks

Hi, I have seen some old cobol programs that uses a ',' 12 th column on many lines(not a part of STRING or similar verbs). Any body knows about significance of comma? thanks

Hi, I have posted the same question in Visual Age Solutions. ---- I have a proble with Visual Age COBOL Sort. See the program call sequence given below. MAIN(EXE)->SUB1(DLL)->SUBIO(DLL) SUB1 is invoked from MAIN multiple times, SUBIO is the module that handles file operations and SORTS for...

One of my COBOL program(build using Visual AGE COBOL) has a FILE defined with RECORDLENGTH =80. When the Input file line character length greater than 80, It splitts the record at 80 th column and remaining characters are considered for the next record. But I want only to have a single record...

You are right. Instead of InnerJoin I could use additional WHERE conditions for the table(ANDs). Then it works. Thankx for answer

OK, Alias is optional, but the problem here is it doesn't work when used together with INNERJOIN

Hi there, I would like to use table alias(FROM <tbl> AS) in an SQL that has an INNERJOIN on another Table. Any tips for this are most welcome. I want to do this because, i would like to have subquery in the where clause. e.g.- SELECT DISTINCT TABLE1.FIELD1, TABLE1.FIELD2,TABLE1.FIELD3 FROM...

Hi, As I said earlier, this is only for the documentation of an existing static analysis tool. This tool is supposed to analyse many kind of code violations and reports many code violations or construct. Each of this standard is defined as a metric. The problem is that the existing...

HI, Any body help me for some sample obselte COBOL constructs. Any pointers to the syntax (only syntax is required) of the following consturctus or examples are greatly appreciated. 1. ISAM ITEMS a. Apply CORE-INDEX b. APPLY REORG CRITERIA c. NOMINAL KEY d. TRACK AREA e. ORGANIZATION...

Thanks a lot Dimandja for the answers and rigorous explanation. bye