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    IBM iSeries COBOL increasing field sizes

    in a normal COBOL environment, you being the programmer, can choose the size. If it is about database fields, it is a complete different question. In IBM environment there are extremely big sizes possible. You can just look it up in the compiler manual. Look for limitations, things like that...
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    Opening and reading from a binary file larger than 2GB

    2GB is a general max size in 16 bit environments. You can make a program in GNU COBOL, I expect it to run. You can download the SPF365 editing utility for free. It is able to edit very large files. It can also compare files and directories. Perhaps a chopfile program can help you...
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    AS400 Compile Error

    This message indicates an issue with a file specification in an RPG program or DDS (Data Description Specifications) for an AS/400 or IBM i system. The specific problem is: 1. The file 'POSPEMLMST' is not externally described. 2. The file is not a keyed file. 3. An external key specification...
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    Office 2021 Set Colors

    Try to save the text below with extension SLK and load it into any version of excel. You will see several Multiplan colors. Save it with a different extension, copy and paste.... and enjoy the SLK format, which is easy to create out of a program, because it is pure ASCII. ID;PWXL;N;E P;PGeneral...
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    LE COBOL

    there is a way, using the language environment. I made my own error handler in COBOL. It works excellent and it survives all abends. Fun. Look it up in the manuals how to do this.
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    Linkage Section Initialization

    The linkage section is in fact not a storage area of the program in which it is defined. The calling program makes that area available, but only when everything is going the right way. When the called module with its linkage section is called, only a pointer is given, to point to that area, but...
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    SPF / ISPF / PDF / SPF365 / etc. ALL about editing on mainframe and PC with mainframe look-alike

    SDSF is still living! REXX is still living CLIST is still living IBM is more of continuing thing, not of throwing away! 😊 So programs that are over 30 years old, can work every day, no trouble. Very different compared to Java environment where programs mostly don't live longer than 2...
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    SPF / ISPF / PDF / SPF365 / etc. ALL about editing on mainframe and PC with mainframe look-alike

    The latest download link is: https://github.com/michaelknigge/spf-editor/releases/tag/v365.3454.25 The icon you get after installing is SPF365. The installed directory and path is: C:\Program Files (x86)\SPFSE365\Graphic\Bin\SPF80GE.exe So I call it SPF365, one of the many names that type of...
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    SPF / ISPF / PDF / SPF365 / etc. ALL about editing on mainframe and PC with mainframe look-alike

    Hi everybody, If you are familiar with ISPF mainframe editing, I like to give anyone my ISPF mainframe quick-ref for ISPF editing. The line commands are similar on the PC. One of the advantages of the PC mainframe-look-alike version - for example - is that the command-line is much longer and...
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    MAINFRAME EXPRESS 3.0

    ever thought of using GNU COBOL? It is free, has no royalty problem, good for development I think..... 😁
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    💥 did you see chatbot COBOL source? And.... did you like it or was it even clean compiled?? 🤣

    Thanks! Exactly! The chatbots know almost nothing of COBOL. I even see typical Javascript terminology in the proposed source. Also the columns are wrong. Even the typical student questions for COBOL are not answered. There is a very long way to go before COBOL is correctly generated by any...
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    💥 did you see chatbot COBOL source? And.... did you like it or was it even clean compiled?? 🤣

    Great talks about Chatbots nowadays. It would even be able to write COBOL. 😂🤣😂🤣 I tried a lot, but even a clean compile is not possible. What did you experience? Thanks! 😁
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    cobol can not this and that..... pffff

    Can anybody chis correct google search with its nonsense like below? In 1981 I started with Realia COBOL 2.0 and it was already able to do dynamic memory allocation. It had a machine level interface so one was for example able to read the status of the keyboard. I had a program that opened a...
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    python calculator from Texas Instruments

    Hi, nowadays people can use a Texas Instruments calculator working with Python when they do a mathematics exam. So now I am wondering. Is buying such a calculator and working through the manual a good way to become very familiar with Python? 😊
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    How To Determine Encoding Of A File - And see the contents in Hex

    As a COBOL programmer, using the free editor SPFLite can be of much help. See http://spflite.com/ It is a mainframe look-alike editor with all kinds of commands, file profiles, ..... Also there is an old utility RCOPY from Computer Associates that can concert EBCDIC into ASCII and the other...
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