I've been working in Canada as a COBOL progrtammer analysr for the past 4 years and am looking at moving from the company I currently am with for better opportunites. I have a lot of the mainframe skills, JCL,COBOL, DB2 but cannot seem to find anything out there? Is it that hard to find comapnies...
Good day, I hava a process in as400 system that locks if 2 users enter the application at the same time. I thought that once it is out of System-36 and becomes ILE Cobol, locking would be resolved. I was wrong. This is what it does: 1. File is read and data presented on screen (database file). 2....
This is a two part question. 1. I'm looking to use a COBOL program to create multiple files in a standard library. Is there a way to programatically write multiple files from a single program. I had someone indicate that I could call to CL instream and actually create multiple files on the fly. ...
I want to replacing 1 character in a String with 1 or more Characters in COBOL/400. How can i perform this?? Example : 1) A with ABC 2)A with ABCDE 3)A with A Etc.
I have a really old cobol program generated under VS cobol. Under 3.2 VS cobol no longer works. I regenerated the program to view the problems and a line 'Service Reload' came up as invalid. What does Service Reload do? Is there an 'easy' replacement?
I want to replacing 1 character in a String with 1 or more Characters in COBOL/400. How can i perform this??
Hi, Can any one please tell me what is Rename Clause and the use of Rename clause? I know only we are using 66 level for Rename clause in Cobol Program. Thanks In advance. Suchi..
Can I get an example of how to parse XML document in ILE COBOL? I need both SAX and DOM parser examples.
I have used SBMJOB in the COOL 2E SYNON code (Generating COBOL source). During runtime, the fucntion crashes with CPF0006 message when trying to submit the program through Y2CMEXC. Is it the error caused by the Y2BLSJR command through which the parameters for the SBMJOB is set? Parameter 1 ...
I am an RPG programmer, but have a client with a cobol issue. When the program does a write to a screen it never returns to the read statement. No error is issued and we have to cancel the job. Any ideas or suggestions?
how can identify which line in cobol cause the index error if the program has multiple array table.
can any one give an exapmle program(code)how to use cobol i-o-feedback area Thansk & Regards
Hello Friends, I have a question related to PROGRAM-ID. Scenario: Source name is “PGMA”.I specify program name as “PGMB” in PROGRAM-ID. While compilation it hasn’t thrown any compilation error. Since it’s not throwing any compilation error, then what is the significance of PROGRAM-ID...
This is not a question & I am not sure if this is a proper forum. So I will let the site moderator decide. I recently came across a nice quiz which, I think, supports/encourages developing programming skills. So ... here is the puzzle. Find the lowest number with the following...
I want to know is ther any COBOL Certification by IBM? as we have for DB2 certificate
Is there any open source tool avaiable to measure the code complexity for AS400 programming languages like RPG, COBOL?
I have date in form 01/01/09 (dd/mm/yy) and i want to convert it to 01-Jan-09 using array in cobol.Please Help me in this regard.


