SSRANGE Compiler option in COBOL

sunojsm · New User Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Andorra

hi,

what is SSRANGE? how to give it in jcl.can anyone
explain with example.

bye

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Look in the index of the COBOL Pgmr's Guide for the compiler you're using. It must be COBOLII or later.

mainframemouli · New User Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 52 Location: Mysore

SSRANGE is a cobol compiler option.(Sub Script Range)

if you set the SSRANGE then whenever the subscript exceeds its declared
number it will give a Eroor.

That is a variable is declared like this...

01 field1.
02 field2 pic x(10) occurs 10 times.

then field2(1) ......field2(10) is allowed when it exceeds it will give error
ex: field2(11)

But the Default is NO SSRANGE.

sunojsm · New User Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Andorra

hi,
thanks for ur replies.

narena · New User Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 18

Hi.....

If we declare a table with 5 occurrences. If in the program we want to access the 6th variable then some times the program will not give error. So at that time we have to specify SSRANGE option.

It will be specified in the PARM Parameter of IGYCRCTL .

raju1951 · New User Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 4

if SSRANGE is chosen and if the subscript value is out of range
then there will be abend.
if NOSSRNAGE (default) then a out of range subsricpt value may result in
fetching junk data without abend.

Vayunandanrao · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 9

Hi,
By default the option is nossrange u have to keep this as SSRANGE to check the errors when u r using the occurs clause

Eg: if u have a(10) it can accept 11th element also so it wont show any error if u use compiler option SSRANGE then it will show error when ur treying to enter the data

sumitmalik29 · New User Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 19 Location: bhuneswar

can anybody explain how to use SSRANGE in the cobol program with example
thanks in advance

Escapa · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:21 am

Hi Sumit and sunojsm,
See below link,
I think this has everything you needed

ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=35028&highlight=ssrange