Want to know the length of a copybook

jayanta_nit · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 22 Location: hyderabad

Hi,
I want to know the length of a copybook,but while I am trying to see that in FILEAID then I am geeting error mentioning that the error in line no something but there is no such error.And I also dnt able to calculate the copybook length ib footprint also because some fields are redefines by other field,so nt sure how that field uses the address spaces.
Please give me any suggestion so that I can see the copybook length.

Thanks
Jayanta
Hyderabad.

ashwinreddy · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:59 pm

Hi,

Check the copybook layout without using the file. check the option in FileAid as copybook layout.

And once you confirmed with the layout, create the input data. Redifines is not a problem as the same length would have been redifined as Header, detail and trailer.

As the above error is due to wrong input data entered or mismatch in the record layout.

Hope this hepls

Cheers
Ashwin

jayanta_nit · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 22 Location: hyderabad

thnx..i will check this..

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 5:39 pm

If this is COBOL, the compiler's datamap has lengths of all fields. This may be in 0-based hex, which means convert to decimal, then add 1, to get 1-based decimal.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:46 pm

Hi jayanta_nit,

Use the following file aid option: f;fa;8
there proivde the PDS name & the copybook name, you'l get the lentgth of the copybook

If you've already used the above option, please ignore my reply.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:54 pm

Hello,

If you post the actual error that you received it will help us help you. If you press PF1 when the error is presented, you should see help info for the error.

While what follows is not exactly what you ask, but you might look at the dcb info for the file the copybook describes. The dcb info will tell you the length. . .

You could also run a compile and get the length from the output of the compile. You don't need a whole program, just the expansion of the copybook.