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I am trying to use the Reflection settings.rsu file to distribute custom settings to my users. I have followed the directions in the tech note 1566 but can't seem to get it to work reliably. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, Glenn

I am managing a group of mixed contractors/employees doing new development and maintenance in COBOL (APS really) on an IBM z/OS system. There seem to be several different ways that our group is handling/has handled multi-level control breaks in report programs. I long ago settled on what I...

I am looking for a DB2 Checkpoint/Restart tool for use in z/OS COBOL programs. Any thoughts or suggestions?

I'm looking for recommendations for a DB2 Checkpoint/Restart tool for z/OS COBOL application programs. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

I'm trying to put together some standards for my programming group. One of the things that has generated some discussion is "How do you negate a field?" Generally, most of our folks do it with a multiplication: COMPUTE A = A * -1 Others suggest: COMPUTE A = - A I would be interested in...

All - I've recently been "dumpster diving" in some old, production code and turned up a number of common errors that persist in the code to this day. That set me thinking about common traps that COBOL programmers, especially beginners, fall into. I figured that topic might be worthy of a...

There is an interesting thread in the HP3000-L discussion group on COBOL optimization techniques (obviously results attained are specific to the HP platform, but some general inferences may be drawn). See: http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0406b&L=hp3000-l&F=&S=&P=10495 Regards, Glenn

I've always taken for granted that SEARCH ALL (binary search) takes at most O(log N) comparisons to locate an entry in a table. However, I've never delved into the specifics of any implementation in COBOL. I'm reviewing some COBOL material where the author states that to do a SEARCH ALL on a...

I ran into an interesting situation that I wanted to share with you. I had a program on an IBM mainframe. I was getting a user abend due to a table overflow. I got a LE formatted dump and went to see what the last few entries in my table were. To make a long story shorter, the table was not...

I am integrating Crystal 8.5 with an existing product/database. To hide the complexities of the database, I thought I would build a Crystal Dictionary. Looks like a good approach when I access it through Crystal directly. However, I want to kick off the Report Wizard and have it use the...