So first - let’s say there is a Linkage Section variable defined as: 05 Important-Value Pic X(10) Value SPACE. Then let’s say some other program calls this first program where the Important-Value variable being passed has a value of “Platinum”. Once our first program gets up and running, will SPACE overwrite “Platinum” or will “Platinum” overwrite SPACE? Who prevails??? 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ..read more

To The Developer of the Forum MAINFRAME Greetings, I am honored to participate in this forum. Actually I have a tech blog site and it is PHP PHP-based website. But after getting the COBOL Programming language, I thought I would run my website through this programming language. I am not completely sure if it is possible to change the programming language. If it is then what should I need to do. The features and design make me impressed to run my website through this programming language. Here is my website, please let me know is it possible or not. I shall be highly thankful to you for your val ..read more

I expected the ADD instruction in the following COBOL program to trigger an ABEND S0C7. However the program terminated normally and the ouput was quite surprising. The SYSIN in the JCL //SYSIN DD * 5 //* There is only the character 5 in the SYSIN (well, followed by a newline character of course) The COBOL program WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 77 X PIC 9(10). PROCEDURE DIVISION. ACCEPT X ADD 1 TO X DISPLAY 'X = ' X STOP RUN . The output X = 5000000001 I then ran the program in a debugger The ACCEPT statement moved a ‘5’ in the leftmost ..read more

I run a small plumbing and home repair service and would like to have a COBOL system developed that would on the main screen display the name of the company then have options for different screens like 1 customer info like name address and phone numbers and options to change or add customers. 2 for scheduling 3 for billing. I was wondering if this was something someone on this forum would be interested in developing. Thanks 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ..read more

Can someone point me to a Visual COBOL SQL Server course or tutorial? 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ..read more

This code below does not work? DISPLAY "You are, " WS-CUSTOMER-NAME. "And your age is ", WS-AGE. Can somebody fix it with proper codes? 6 posts - 4 participants Read full topic ..read more

Hello. I am trying to modify an existing COBOL program that reads in data (all 100K+records) then moves that data into a sort file for processing. I would like to only process (sort) those records that meet a certain criterion. My understanding is this will make my program execute faster therefore making it more efficient. Currently the program reads all records then eliminates those records which meet the criteria. I am new to COBOL programming and am not sure what information to include to get helpful feedback. 6 posts - 3 participants Read full topic ..read more

I have finished the COBOL Programming Course - Open Mainframe Project, what is the next course to continue learning COBOL? 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ..read more

Hello, im a cobol beginner here is my code to delete space from a sequential file ,but if try to replace with a coma it replaces all the spaces , is there a way to only replace the first space and delete the others ? IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. CPYFILES. AUTHOR. M. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION. FILE-CONTROL. SELECT MY-INPUT-FILE ASSIGN TO "C:\Users\Hp\Documents\my_input.txt" ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL. SELECT MY-OUTPUT-FILE ASSIGN TO "C:\Users\Hp\Documents\my_output.txt" ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL. DATA DIVISION ..read more

Is there any specific reason why HIGH VALUES are moved while coding a cobol internal array. Reviewing some programs and found only 1 of them coded with high values but not the rest so curious. Any advantages or disadvantages. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ..read more