COBOL/400 – Time stamp
Hi, could anyone please advice me how to use time stamp in COBOL/400?

Answer Question   |  May 15, 2013  4:58 AM
AS/400, CLLE, COBOL

CPF5011 COBOL subfile error
I have not written a subfile program in a while, but am having trouble when errors are encountered. As this is COBOL and the code can be lengthy to weed through on a forum, let me first spell out the scenario. I have 32 records in a COBOL subfile, 11 per page. There is one [...]

Answer Question   |  April 26, 2013  2:09 PM
AS/400, AS/400 Subfiles, COBOL

CEDF suppress displays
How can I suppress CICS commands in CEDF until I get to the program I want to debug? Our CICS programs are linked through several layers before getting to the program that I am interested in. There are hundreds of CICS commands before my program and sometimes CEDF fills up and cannot process anymore before [...]

Answer Question   |  April 4, 2013  2:52 PM
CEDF, CICS, CICS programs

iSeries SQL Cobol
In my COBOL SQL select statement that was previously running on V5R4, I was able to extract a date field defined with “date” as the data type. We are now on V7R1 and we get a data mapping error. No clue as to why? Any ideas? thanks

Answer Question   |  April 2, 2013  6:59 PM
COBOL, iSeries, SQL statement

COBOL PGM for extracting fields from mulitple files to a flat file
Hi, Please help me with an need an example COBOL program for the below mentioned requirements. Extract fields from 3 files based on selection criteria(specific to each file) and write all the records which satisfies the criteria to a flat file. Thank you.

Answer Question   |  March 22, 2013  1:30 PM
COBOL, COBOL Programs

File Status 90 during open
Hi, I have a logical file, which I am trying to open in I-O mode, but I get File status 90 File is existing on the system, The code was working fine previously (on development machine), but today I installed all the objects on another machine (Testing machine), and I am getting this file status, [...]

Answer Question   |  March 18, 2013  5:39 AM
AS/400, COBOL

CICS HTTP Request (Client)
https://uhilsfkn.dlis.dla.mil/relgate/!RDEPKG_SXIG_BROKER.REQUEST?NAME=DSS_PROFITCENTER&NCB=00&ITEM=9835793?    I am working on a couple of assumptions that need to be verified: Given a Request that works if I use it in the URL line of an http request “https://xxxxxxxxxx.yyyyy.zzzd.mil/relgate/!RDEPKG_SXIG_BROKER.REQUEST?NAME=DSS_PROFITCENTER&NCB=00&ITEM=9835793″ ASSUMPTION 1. Since the host is supplied in the OPEN statement it need not be provided in the from parm. ASSUMPTION 2. Same [...]

Answer Question   |  March 5, 2013  10:02 PM
CICS programs

COBOL reading RPG created files
I am trying to read a RPG created file with special characters in the data fields (EX: EP$DEPT,etc). Is there a way I can remap the fields in a COBOL program. I tried a logical mapping over the PF but when I rename the fields in the LF removing the $ sign, I get compile [...]

Answer Question   |  February 18, 2013  3:43 AM
COBOL, COBOL Programs, RPG file

Validate date in COBOL/400
I have date in yyyymmdd format. I want to validate if it lies between a particular period of 2 years let b/w 1 Jan 2012 to 5 April 2014, in COBOL/400…. Please help me as the intrinsic function like that in COBOL are not working in this case. Thanks.

Answer Question   |  January 31, 2013  7:22 PM
COBOL, COBOL/400

Which is the best dielectric material used in Planar Inverted F Antenna and what is the best material to build the PIFA and Ground Plane? Thanks a lot
The Planar Inverted F antenna are among few antennas used for mobile communication. This is mainly due to its miniature size and it’s abiltiy to work on higher frequency. A metallic strip is used over a ground plate which resembles the F shape, hence called the F antenna. The dielectric with high permittivity is best [...]

Answer Question   |  January 15, 2013  10:40 AM
Antenna, Coaxial cable, Simulation software

Guidance/process for updating or changes data in production.
Hi folks, I am looking for some best practices in change management which can implemented to perform the changes to the data in production. May be code changes to changes to actual data. I appreciate if you can share some process, guidelines or any thoughts on this. Regard, RM

Answer Question   |  January 2, 2013  6:26 PM
Change management, Data production

ADDBKP – default program
Hi, I’m trying to debug the batch job. After releasing the job, a display screen is shown the use debug commands. When I use ADDBKP STMT(1), an error is thrown as no default program exits. How to make my program as default program?

Answer Question   |  November 28, 2012  7:39 AM
Batch job, RPG

Avamar EMC Configuration
Hello all, I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for downloading the necessary software so that I can configure an Avamar unit in my lab that I was fortunate in getting. Thanks

Answer Question   |  September 4, 2012  2:00 PM
Avamar, Datacenter Server, Netwokring

i Series Access Express
does access express under v5r4 run with windows 7

Answer Question   |  August 4, 2012  5:00 PM
64 bit architecture

CICS DB2 SCROLL LOGIC PROGRAM
I NEED TO IMPLEMENT SCROLL IN CICS AND DB2. PLEASE HELP ME TO SORT OUT THIS ISSUE. THANK YOU!!!!! SURESH  

Answer Question   |  June 14, 2012  6:46 AM
CICS programs

COBOL400
I get the following message MCH3601 (pointer not set for loacation referenced) when calling a Cobol program from another Cobol program, passing 4 paramters.However this abend happens on the second call to this program as the first call was sucessful.Can anyone help me. It fails after open statment.even i am not able to check the file [...]

Answer Question   |  June 5, 2012  12:38 PM
COBOL Compiler

Output from COBOL display statement not showing up in log when changing userid via QWTSETP
If I change userids in my CL via QSYGETPH/QWTSETP I get no QPJOBLOG. After adding DSPJOBLOG  OUTPUT(*PRINT)  to the CL I get a joblog. But still no output from the DISPLAY statements in the program. If I don’t switch userids, I see the messages in the QPJOBLOG.    

Answer Question   |  April 25, 2012  6:48 PM
COBOL, iSeries v7r1

Logical File
Hi, I have written two online programs.  The first one uses PRDATA-FILE.  The second one uses a logical file based on PRDATA-FILE.  When the screen of the first online program is displayed, the screen of the second online program does not display records.  Is this because PRDATA-FILE is locked by the first online program? How [...]

Answer Question   |  April 26, 2012  10:12 AM
AS/400 logical file, COBOL, iSeries 820

Ques Regarding Date in Iseries cobol.
Hi Group, I have a date field declared as packed field of 9, and date is declared as mmddyyyy format. My requirement is such that i need to pick the date field and 1 day to it. For example if the date is ’02142012′ i need to add 1 day to it and end result [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2012  9:43 PM
AS400 iseries, COBOL, PGM

How to create batch or script to change specific program settings.
We are doing a rollout at our company. We’ve created a final Windows 7 Enterprise base image for all the virtual machines that will be deployed. But there are specific settings we have to change for a couple programs that come with each image (Word and Outlook 2010) Instead of manually having to go into [...]

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  5:23 AM
Batch job, Outlook 2010, VBScipt, Windows 7 Enterprise, Word 2010