How WITH NO ADVANCING will work

venosol · New User Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Bangalore

How WITH NO ADVANCING will work ?

Suppose I had a DISPLAY statement Like this.

DISPLAY ' ENTER ONE DIGIT' WITH NO ADVANCING.

ACCEPT WS-NUM.

I tried it but I am getting some error. Please clarify me.

guptae · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:42 am

Hi There,

Please refer the manual

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pdthelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.entcobol4.doc/tpbeg16b.htm

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:28 pm

Hello,

You are confusing DISPLAY and WRITE.

As suggested by Ekta, please refer to the Fine Manual.

As a hint, "NO ADVANCING" will not work with DISPLAY or WRITE. . .

After checking in the manual, please let us know if you have questions

To go a little deeper - if you are putting output on paper asking the use to enter a digit, how will this work? The DISPLAY/WRITE output will not be visable until the job is already finished. If you have a requirement to interact with a user, a different approach is needed.

superk · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:34 pm

It's kind of odd that only the NO ADVANCING option is there for DISPLAY. You'd think that there would be the full range of ADVANCING parameters.

I guess it must be intended for a foreground-oriented interactive program.

j_sram · New User Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 6

If you specify the WITH NO ADVANCING phrase and the output is going to a ddname, the printer control character + (plus) is placed into the first output position from the next DISPLAY statement. + is the ANSI-defined printer control character that suppresses line spacing before a record is printed.

For example:
DISPLAY ?ABC?
DISPLAY ?CDEF? WITH NO ADVANCING
DISPLAY ?GHIJK? WITH NO ADVANCING
DISPLAY ?LMNOPQ?
DISPLAY ?RSTUVWX?

If you use the statements above, the result sent to the output device is:

ABC
CDEF
+GHIJK
+LMNOPQ
RSTUVMX