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Amazingly enough, we seem to have a lot of COBOL code that I would consider poor, i.e. the overall structure is poor and is hard to understand what the program's doing. Are there any tools that can examine a program and output a more meaningful view of the structure, e.g. in diagram form, that...

At present, practically all development of COBOL pgms that will ultimately reside on the m/f is performed on the same m/f. This includes code-cutting and the initial testing. This draws on the m/f's resources (which are expensive!) and turnaround time isn't fast (compared to PC-based IDEs), so...

I'm using the XML GENERATE statement to convert a fixed-format data structure into XML. However, some of my data items in the structure are empty, and the conversion deals with this like so:- 01 addressArea. 05 addressLine1 PIC X(30). 05 addressLine2 PIC X(30). 05 addressLine3...

We are starting to implement use of XML PARSE and GENERATE statements and are having an issue with overflow conditions. Previously, we had subroutines that encountered overflow conditions that were trapped (e.g via ON EXCEPTION, etc) but otherwise continued fine. Apparently this is because the...

Not having much luck in the manuals, which makes me think this isn't possible....... I have a small XML structure that is to be generated from my Enterprise COBOL v3.3 program. Although simple, one of the elements has a number of attributes. Question: Is it possible to define the w-s group...

I am doing some investigative work with regard to using (or not) the new XML features of the latest COBOL compiler. I have seen examples of v3.2 and the use of the 'XML PARSE' statement, but as yet I cannot find the exact format nor examples of the advertised 'XML GENERATE' statement. Has...

To avoid large amounts of linkage in our mainframe system, we have employed the use of temporary tables. We prototyped this and found comparable performance with permanent tables, so we went ahead. Now that serious testing is being performed on the full system, we are getting major performance...

We currently use the Redvers parser/generator products for processing XML in our COBOL applications on the mainframe. We have plans to move to a later version of the COBOL compiler which has some XML support, e.g. 'XML PARSE' statement. It seems that the amount of code we have to write would not...

We have set up a process where the presence of a msg on a queue will cause a 'listening' trigger monitor (running as a BMP) to detect this and kick off an associated IMS transaction. No problems so far. Trouble is, the IOPCB userid of the txn says 'CSQQTRMN' and not the userid of the person who...

I have a need to process XML documents as input messages to mainframe components. The XML documents will be varied in type. I was hoping to find a generic mainframe-compliant parser routine that could be used to process such messages, enabling the program to convert XML to fixed format, and then...

My team is looking to use the DDF (Distributed Data Facility) of DB2 to run an application on one mainframe (OS/390) machine that can access the DB2 data on another (as opposed to copying this data between machines, an old solution). This is new to the company, so wondered if anyone else out...