Dynamically create and execute COBOL statements
I’m trying to dynamically create COBOL statements using field names identified in a table, so the same build statement can be used for different fields. Is there a way to dynamically build statements and execute?  These buillt statements would be MOVE and ADD statements. Thanks in advance

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2012  3:50 PM
AS/400, COBOL, COBOL statements

COBOL/400
Hi Group, In COBOL/400 PGM the file has been declared with ACCESS as SEQUENTIAL and ORGANIZATION as SEQUENTIAL. How to delete a record from such file? Regards, M

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  4:42 AM
COBOL, COBOL statements, COBOL/400, PGM

COBOL/400
Hi Group, I have the code in this format IDENTIFICATION DIVISION PROGRAM-ID. PGM. ——– ——– DATA DIVISION. FILE SECTION FD  PHONEFILE 01  PHONE-REC. ———— ———— PROCEDURE DIVISION. <In Procedure division i have written an record into the PHONEFILE> WRITE PHONE-REC. I would like to pass the PHONE-REC record to a sub-program. <My question is, Can [...]

Answer Question   |  June 24, 2011  5:45 PM
AS/400, COBOL, COBOL statements, COBOL/400

Use of ‘THRU’ in cobol ?
Hi. i have 2 questions in cobol : 1) Suppose i have a para : 1000-process Now while processing if i use : perform 1000-process thru 1000-exitand perform 1000-process .What will be the difference. 2) Suppose there is a cobol pgm named ABC .and in indentification division, i i give the name XYZ.Then i call [...]

Answer Question   |  February 22, 2011  7:00 AM
AS/400, COBOL, COBOL Programs, COBOL statements

Count unique characters in field in batch Cobol
Please adwise how to count number of unique characters (any character can be)  in batch cobol. Thanks

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2010  4:48 PM
Batch jobs, COBOL, COBOL statements

IKJEFT01 – COND CODE 61
I’m trying to run a job which runs the program IKJEFT01 an it abends with return code 61. Does anybody knows what this means?

Answer Question   |  July 27, 2010  6:03 PM
COBOL, COBOL statements, Mainframe, Mainframe programming

Renames clause in cobol
while using renames clause we are defining dataname-1 thru dataname-n. if i am having same datanames in another group which output can i expect?

Answer Question   |  June 29, 2010  6:49 AM
COBOL, COBOL statements, Programming Languages, RENAME statement

Enterprise COBOL INSPECT Performance
I am looking to see if anyone has any performance metrics for the COBOL INPSECT statement. The specifics I am looking for is changing the statement from and INSPECT REPLACING to and INSPECT CONVERTING. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer Question   |  July 1, 2008  2:35 PM
COBOL, COBOL INSPECT, COBOL statements