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baskkarsubbian

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:06 am
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Hi,
Could you please someone help me out to derive the below logic in cobol or either to solve this issue with the combination of sort and cobol.

In our project one of the program creates a change report. Basically do a match (typical cobol match logic) from the previous version of the insurance file and the current version of the insurance file.

find the below examle:

current file previous file

ACC-N0 SEC-NO ACC-NO SEC-NO
A A1,A2,A3 A A2
A A2 A A1
A B B1 B2 B3
B B1 C C1,C2
C C1 C C1
D D1 D D1

DO A MATCH IF THE ACCOUNT NUMBERS ARE MATCHING CHECK FOR THE SEC NUMBER MATCH

AS PER MY CURRENT LOGIC

F1 < F2
F1 IS ADDED

F1 = F2

IN MY CASE A=A SO LOOK FOR SEC NUMBER MATCH A1= A2

SO IT WRITES A1 ADDED AND A2 IS DELETED AND A3 IS ADDED

BUT COMES TO THE NEXT RECORD IT WRITES A2 ADDED AND A1 DELETED

F1 > F2
F2 IS DELETED

THE OUTPUT IS

A A1 ADDED
A A2 DELETED
A A3 ADDED
A A2 ADDED
A A1 DELETED

This is 100% wrong.
could you please help me to derive the logic.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:50 am
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Hello,

Please re-post your data using the "Code" tag and the Preview feature to eusure proper alignment. Also, please use values that are not almost all the same (possibly using all numeric for the acc-no and alphas for the sec-no).

At/near the top of the COBOL part of the forum is working code that accomplishes a 2-file match/merge which is what i believe you want. Download the code and review it for use with your requirement.
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