Copy & include statements in Procedure division

maheshurstd · New User Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 14

Hi,

what are the contents present in the following code

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
PARA1.

COPY MEMBER NAME
INCLUDE MEMBER NAME

Thanks in advance

Regards

Mahesh

param_rajesh_2001 · New User Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Bangalore

Both the stmt does the same , The first STMT "COPY MEMBER NAME " ..
Cobol Copy books get copied in the comile time here member "NAME" COPIED during the compile time

the second "INCLUDE MEMBER NAME " MEMBER NAME copied during the pre-compile time .

creator.abhishek · New User Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 32 Location: Pune

Both does the same thing, onlt the difference is include is precompilation stmt and copy is complitaion stmt. both r stmt of working-storage division, it doesn't work in procedure division .

k.pavankumar · New User Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 8

Hi Mahesh.

The COPY is the Cobol statement and the INCLUDE belongs to the Precompilation expanision.

In your description there is a fault, while writing the include statement you have to place it in EXEC SQL and END-EXEC Block.

EXEC SQL
INCLUDE <copybook>
END EXEC.

According to your declaration you will definitely face a compilation error.

parikshit123 · Active User Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 269 Location: India

Hi,

Just a little correction,
I think, both copy and include statements works fine even in procedure divisions.

Thanks,
Parikshit

creator.abhishek · New User Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 32 Location: Pune

Hi Parikshit, i think procedure division is for processing , which can be run in compilation time, how u say precompilation stmt is able to come there. plz let me know.