Usage & functioning of the utility ?IEFCOPY? in cobol

Shobana · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Chennai

Can anyone help me out on the usage & functioning of the utility ?IEFCOPY? in cobol program?

agkshirsagar · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:41 pm

Shobana · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Chennai

The syntax used in our COBOL programs is like:

Case 1: IEFCOPY KAT000.WK_SERV_PRVDR_ID FLDLVL=10, PREFIX=H.

The above statement is replaced in the compile listing as:
10 H000-WK-SERV-PRVDR-ID PIC X(4).

(KAT000 is a DB2 table, FLDLVL specifies at which level it has to be copied & prefix specifies the first character of the variable to be start).

Case 2: IEFCOPY KAT009 PREFIX=L.

The above statement is replaced with the entire structure the KAT009 table as below in the compile listing?

05 L009-AFFILIATE-ID PIC X(1).
05 L009-ADJUSTMENT-LEVEL PIC X(1).
05 L009-ADJ-ACTIVITY-CODE PIC X(1).
05 L009-ADJUSTMENT-ID PIC X(5).
05 L009-ADJUSTMENT-DATA PIC X(15).

Pls let me know if you have any information on the funcationality of IEFCOPY here in the cobol program.

agkshirsagar · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:19 pm

From your posts I can figure out that IEFCOPY is not an IBM utility program.
(First I thought you wanted to know IEBCOPY

and you made a spelling mistake

.. ) It may be some home made utility program for use on your site.
Check your compiler JCL, before the compiler step, there should be some program which preprocesses IEFCOPY statements and replaces it with the VARIABLE declarations as you have posted.
Good luck.

Shobana · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Chennai

Thanks a lot Abhijit.

agkshirsagar · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:40 pm

You are welcome