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    Need good advise on COBOL reference for rewriting programs

    I think too many people get hung up on "GO TOless" programming and miss the big picture as each module written should be functionally subordinate. This way code is easily read from top to bottom. Although I don't like to see "GO TO's" in programs there are situations when...
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    Using Dynamic SQL in DB2

    Hi I'm not familiar with 370 Cobol but for the AS 400 you'd probably use the varying-list Dynamic SQL. This is where the number and type of parameters are unknown. Do you have this available in Cobol 370? On the AS 400 each parameter marker is a question mark (?).
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    Need good advise on COBOL reference for rewriting programs

    Check out Structured Cobol Methods from Paul Noll. It contains some very useful guidelines for writing good structured code.

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