Recent content by dallasdino

Thanks Jack. You are the best. I thought SORT should be able to do it but I just could not see how using the manual and several attempts. Thanks again, Alfred

I recently came by the problem of converting a VB file to FB and removing the first 100 bytes and tried to do it with SORT but it did not appear to allow VB to reformat to FB. Batch Fileaid does it. TSO =3.2 does it. Is there an easier way to do it in a job? I tried IEBGENER but it did not...

Who knows of a solid Assembler to COBOL converter? I have some experience converting mainframe assembler to COBOL for business applications. I am in the early stages of writing some conversion utilities to fully automate a large part of most business assembler applications with the rest to be...

I think I have what I need for this project but I might revist this whole issue as I add some more features to the ISPF panels. Thanks Gazolba for the tip. I think I can do this one either way and I was really looking for a quick and dirty but if you have a skeleton example it sounds like you...

With your help and the examples I had started I have sucessfully passed the input back and forth to the COBOL program. I am getting a return code 8 on the VGET although it seems to be returning the values fine. I am going to try to track that down. I will post the test stub I came up with as...

Thanks for the code. I will be checking this out this week. I am sure this will help me get going. Super !!! I will let you know how it goes.

I am interested in anything you have as examples and any pointers. I successfully called a COBOL program from a CLIST that displayed a panel but I did not pass any parms yet. I have created a number of panels and tested them. I am an experienced programmer in COBOL but am a novice at using COBOL...

Hey guys, Here is the solution is used. Please feel free to contact me for any source you would like. I have gotten the concept to work fine. In any case I have a read/write program written in assembler that clearly shows how to get the input format and LRECL. It essentially does what...

Hey guys, I did reply to my last solution so I am not sure what the beef is about. Here it is below. I do appreciate the help. I am not sure of the remarks from Slade. He sounds a little cranky today. I will be using this panel to call the smart compare among other things. In any case I have...

Slade, I did report it and asked if anyone wanted the source for the final product mailed to them. I am tweaking the smart compare but it is 90% done. I will send you a copy at the end of the week if you like. Thanks for all the help but this is along the same lines. I must say I find your...

Here is the code needed for getting the input file attirbutes and setting an output file to the same attributes as an input file. OPEN (IFILE,INPUT) OPEN INPUT TO GET ATTRIBUTES MVC OFILE+36(1),IFILE+36 MOVE THE FORMAT INPUT TO OUTPUT *...

Has anyone done a lot of programing using ISPF Dialog manager panels called from COBOL. I am in the process of creating a number of panels for some specific business applications used in our testing group as well as some general technical productivity enhancers. I plan to add to these and keep...

Thanks Kevin. I will give this a try. Yak at me if you think of anything else I should know. Thanks again.

I think the key will be examining the OPEN and perhaps the GET and PUT macro. Has anyone examined this to know it well? I want to find the length and if it is variable or fixed when I open the file. This is for a MVS mainframe OS/390 system. I forgot COBOL was on so many platforms but most...

This is for a MVS mainframe OS/390 system. I forgot COBOL was on so many platforms but most COBOL is still on the mainframe so I assumed. Sorry. I am interested in reading any size flat file either fixed or variable length and getting the DCB parameters from the program. I do have mainframe...