how to use copy verb in cobol

shubu · New User Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 1

hi!!

how can we use copy verb in a cobol program

I made a member of pds with the entries to copy into my program, and wrote

COPY file-name

it throws error COPY verb cannot b found

help!!!

ashimer · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:57 pm

whre did u make this entry ...... in workign storage rght ????

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:45 pm

you can use the COPY compiler directive STATEMENT in the procedure division.

COPY is not a verb. how have you formated your copy STATEMENT.

Maybe your error (since you did not bother to post it) means the copy text was not found. Are your libraries in the SYSLIB?

vijay_bn79 · New User Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Hyderabad

Hi..,

if you are using copy book means while compliling you should give PDS of that COPY BOOK

becouse the copy books will expand during the Compilation, so if that PDS is not givng in the SYSLIB, then it will file

example:-

//***********************************************************
//COBLE EXEC PGM=IGYCRCTL,REGION=4096K,
//STEPLIB DD DSN=&CMP,DISP=SHR
//SYSIN DD DSN=S91234.DEVE.COBOL(&MEMBER),DISP=SHR
//SYSLIB DD DSN=SYS1.SCEESAMP,DISP=SHR
// DD DSN=S91234.DEVE.COBCOPY,DISP=SHR

IN this exaple S91234.DEVE.COBOL is for the cobol program
S91234.DEVE.COBCOPY this is for the COPYBOOK

Thanks