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pankajayee
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Hi,
Please anyone help us answering my question regarding the below replace command used in COBOL.
Command is: COPY COPYBOOKNAME REPLACING VALUE-A BY VALUE-B
Que: Should the level at which Value-A and Value-B are defined be same?[/b] |
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William Thompson
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If I understand your question, they do not need to be.
If you posted an example of your question, it might make things clearer. |
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pankajayee
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. Please see the example below:
01 VALUE-A
05 VALUE-B
88 VALUE-C .......
88 VALUE-D .......
88 VALUE-E ........
05 ........................
05 ........................
I want to replace the VALUE-D with the values defined in the working storage. As VALUE-D is at 88 level, how can we define the value in working storage.
Could you please provide me the brief explanation on the solution.
Pankaj. |
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agkshirsagar
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Pankaj,
It is still not clear. Please make your example more clear. |
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kussu
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As per my understanding, you are asking "can we able to repalce the values of the variables which are declared at different levels" isn't it?
i think it is possible, but not with 88, 66, 77 levels
Thanks
Kussu |
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Pons
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I dont think it is not possible.
It is possible for all the levels. What ever present in the copy book with matching charecter that will be replace.
05 :A:-SEARCH-PARMS.
10 :A:-SEARCH-AGENCY OCCURS 300 TIMES
INDEXED BY :A:-AGT-NDX.
15 :A:-SEARCH-OCCURS OCCURS 200 TIMES
INDEXED BY :A:-PS-NDX.
20 :A:-SEARCH-POL-NUMBER.
25 :A:-SEARCH-SYM PIC X(03).
88 :A:-CHECK VALUE '111'.
COPY PW760C REPLACING ==:A:== BY == LK ==.
It will replace all the :A: to LK. there is no constraint for replacing. |
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William Thompson
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This is a bit of example from the Enterprise Programming Guide chapter about "Producing XML output, Example: enhancing XML output".
If this is a line in a copybook:
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15 CDR-LIFE-BASE-TOT-VALUE-LINE.
20 CDR-LIFE-BASE-TOT-VALUE PIC X(15). |
This copy replacing
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==CDR-LIFE-BASE-TOT-VALUE-LINE. 20== by ====
==CDR-LIFE-BASE-TOT-VALUE== by ==TotalValue==. |
Will generate this
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| 15 TotalValue PIC X(15). |
I am suprised that the first line with the trailing "20" works (maybe I should test it.....)....
From what I have seen, you can replace just about anything (except the reserved work COPY), try reading a little about the COPY statement. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Please clarify this
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| I want to replace the VALUE-D with the values defined in the working storage |
Do you want to replace 88-level values at run-time with values that were not known when the program was compiled? If that is what you want, you need to implement in a different way. |
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William Thompson
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Geez, if he meant at run-time, no way.
I'd hope he can tell the difference between compile-time and run-time.....  |
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