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Symbols
Bandit76, What exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to set up an edited field for output within a program or are you trying to set up Compile & Link JCL using symbols? Turin- Turin
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- Forum: COBOL General discussion
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Calling SubPrograms
miggyD, Your confusing Conditions with a Group Item. His code of 01 VALIDATION-RESULTS PIC 99. 88 NON-NUMERIC-SSN VALUE 21. 88 NO-SSN-PRESENT VALUE 22. is correct. Level 88 represents a condition of Validation-Results, not an elementary item. Hope this helps...- Turin
- Post #4
- Forum: COBOL General discussion
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College Student needs a little help
If accepting the system date as-is is OK for you, a simple statement in your "INIT" will do as tupendo noted. If, however, you are printing the date for a report and want something more like MMDDYY, you need to do the following: Working Storage Section. 01 ws-date. 05 year-in...- Turin
- Post #4
- Forum: COBOL General discussion
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Automatic Indenting of Source code
As far as I am aware, being fairly new to COBOL II myself, there is not utility that I have come across for auto indenting. However, you can set your Profile to Number-On-Stb-CBL which will start you in column 7. There is also a nifty trick that I heard about. According to Stern & Stern, if...- Turin
- Post #4
- Forum: COBOL General discussion
