Inserting some values in a table using cobol

begginer · New User Joined: 27 Feb 2009 Posts: 3 Location: India

Hi,
I am inserting some values in a table using cobol. It has been seen that there is junk value appended to the input which has been feeded while checking in the table. Is there any way using inspect to remove these junks in data.

Thank You

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:32 pm

Define what is JUNK?

Mathiv Anan · Active User Joined: 23 Jul 2008 Posts: 106 Location: USA

I think you can intialize the table before loading it.

It would be better if you give the table structure, input fields that are loaded into the table fields etc,

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:46 pm

initializing the table will not help if the 'junk' is coming from another source.

insure that the data definitions for the input and the table match.

if you have 'junk' (unwanted data) in your input, you will have to fix that, either thru your input cobol program or the during the creation process of your input file.

but, we have no idea what you are doing. a little more explanation will help.

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:02 pm

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begginer · New User Joined: 27 Feb 2009 Posts: 3 Location: India

I am inserting numeric values into the table (issue is with numeric fields only, characters are all inserted good), The JUNK here is supposed to be numeric value (8080 here) appended to every numeric input. I am removing all the leading zeroes and there aint any junk value when displaying them before insertion.
Thanks in anticipation

senthilnathanj · New User Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 47 Location: chennai

if you are inserting a numeric value in the table.it will display the correct value . you can put in the command line HEX. it will display the value in the hexadecimal format.using COMP fields are binary format.
some of the variable using COMP-3 field displayed in the packed decimal.
you can convert the hexadecimal to binary format manually..
for example if u want to insert the numeric value 23 means

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:24 pm

Hello,

Show the input data definition, the input data in hex, the output (array/table) definition, and the code that moves the data from the input to the table.

begginer · New User Joined: 27 Feb 2009 Posts: 3 Location: India

Thank You guys, the problem was with the table. It has been sorted out !!