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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...

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! 😁

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...

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? 😊

Hi, I am new to c#. Are there some tools to convert from gwbasic to c#? Are there some tools to convert from cobol to c#? Is there a utility that comments c# source that helps new people? Thanks!

Ever played with pictures? Looking for extreme results? Below an example. Try to know without testing/compiling what to expect. Just for fun. 000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000200 PROGRAM-ID. PTEST. 000300 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000400 CONFIGURATION SECTION. 000500 SOURCE-COMPUTER. IBM-PC...

Hi Team, I am missing the good old COBFD program that worked fine, calculating offsets of record definitions in the past and is still working using DOS BOX. But it would be nice if we would have a program of our own, working in GNU COBOL. Just wondering if we have to start from scratch or that...

Hi, I am not experienced in using the report writer of COBOL. I worked most of the time in an IBM environment which does not work with that. I maintain some programs. After a change with all kinds of direct PCL5 commands for HP Laserjet, suddenly the system creates a new-page character on a...

Hi, I am not a great PaintShopPro user, just a bit. When I started using Windows 10, I wanted to install my good-old-PhotoX2 but that did not work. Later on, I started to install again, using compatibility-options on the install program. That worked. I was able to re-install the program on the...

Hi, If you are using DISPLAY with windows 10, 64 bits, the old COBOL running in a DOS/CMD box, is suddenly extremely slow without reason except that it seems to be sabotaged by Microsoft because when I redirect the output to a file, suddenly it is as fast as before.... So perhaps anyone knows...

https://www.zmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=74 Dear everybody, I just found out that Gilbert Saint-Flour is not alive anymore. He was a great COBOL programmer with very interesting solutions. On the mainframe, he was able to read in COBOL the MVS data of a job. So you are able to read the...

Hi everybody. . I am wondering if it is possible to develop programs using GNU COBOL and make it work on an Androïd phone? I don't want to pay royalties like some companies are asking.... far too much, even for a 'hello world' program, some of the think you should pay about 300 euro for a...

Hi, I have a case with two tables to join and three of the columns of the first table should be distinct. I want those three columns and one column of the second table and the count of how many rows there are inside of the distinct group. So table TA contains A, B, C, D table TB contains B, E...

Hi, I was asked by a tester if it was possible to get a higher throughput on a multi-processor system. In a single thread on his system, the cpu% was never higher than 30%. He says multi thread programs are able to get near 100%. What can I do to create multi-threading programs? Also if I can...

Hi, I would like to make some programs on my Samsung Android smartphone, using COBOL if available. Do you have experience with that? Thx!

Hi, I think in the Netherlands it started perhaps even more than 15 years ago that people in India took over lots of our work. Nowadays they even come here while better collegues are without work at home. I don't understand that. See also...

Hi, I had some troubles moving a BLOB of 1Gb to a CICS container because my compiler on the mainframe was limited to 128Mb. Now I know there is a new compiler that can handle 2Gb. I like that very much. Regards, Crox

Hi Collegues, I am wondering if anyone working with CICS made SOAP messages containing a BLOB or using MTOM??? I would like to see some source examples. Also, if you are using a huge amount of binary data like a BLOB of more than 128Mb, how can you use it in COBOL in an other way than with a...

Hi, converting xsd to cobol or vice versa, are there tools? also converting xml to flat files and vice versa? or are there some kind of conversion rules to make something myself? Thanks!

Hi, here is an example of wrong cobol source on the internet: http://www.ibmdatabasemag.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=cobol Identical source can be found at ZDnet. If I try to compile it, there are errors. I am wondering which compiler will compiles that source without errors...