Replace option in Call stmt

bhgh · New User Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Hyderabad

hi,
what is use of Replace option in Call stmt what will happen if not mention Replace.
thanks in advance
rgds

gowtham_1982 · Active User Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 109

hi kala,

i've not seen or used replace option in call stmt. i've used it in COPY stmt

can you give the syntax you use?

gowtham

bhgh · New User Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Hyderabad

ok my query was wrong?it is copy statement only

guptae · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:13 pm

kALA,

Supoose we have a copy book named copybok1 declared as

01 VARA.
05 WS-VAR1 PIC X(5).
05 WS-VAR2 PIC 9(4) COMP-3.
05 WS-VAR3 PIC A(2).
05 WS-VAR4 PIC 9(4).

And if we write following code in r pgm
COPY COPYBOK1
REPLACING VARA BY VARB.

Then in program that particular copybook will be expand

01 VARB.
05 WS-VAR1 PIC X(5).
05 WS-VAR2 PIC 9(4) COMP-3.
05 WS-VAR3 PIC A(2).
05 WS-VAR4 PIC 9(4).
Like that

Generally we give replace option in copy statement if we want to reuse the same copy book again means we want to use samecopy book in pgm more than once in that case in order to distinguish each occourance

Hope it will helpful