Where to store the member used in COPY Verb

harinatha · New User Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 28

Hi,

How to use COPY Verb.

Assume that Iam having cobol program M275203A1M, Which is in the PDS Panvalet.Master

In the Above program(M275203A1M) Contains Copy verb like this
Copy STORE-ST
Then Where do i need to save this member STORE-ST

Thanks & Regards,
Hari.

vijayamadhuri · Active User Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 180

The copy verb is generally used to include copy books in u r program.see where u r copy books are stored and save the member there.

Rupesh.Kothari · Member of the Month Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 463

Hi,

As Vijayamadhuri mentioned "The copy verb is generally used to include copy books in u r program". Whenever you compile your cobol program it will link with copybook (which you can see in you extrated program)
Generally Test program link with test copybook and Prod with Prodcopybook.

Regards
Rupesh

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:03 pm

1. COPY is not a verb...........................

2. the copy members need to be in a PDS which is part of the SYSLIB concatenation.

vijay_bn79 · New User Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Hyderabad

Hi..,

COPY verb is used to include the Copy book into the program
COPY BOOK usually contains the variable decarations, and files record layout, if the same record layout is using in more programs, then instead of writing in all the programs we usually write that in the separate member of the PDS and we will include that member in the program

Ex:-
COPY COPYBOK1

this will expand during the compilation

these copy books usually we store in the separate PDS for COPYB BOOKS

example of the PDS for the Copy book

TEST.COBCOPY in this COPYBOK1 is the member

while compiling we should give both(Copy book and program)libraries otherwise comiplation will fail

David P · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:11 am

Agree to all said above except COPY IS A VERB. Copy is not a verb its a
library statement.

David P.

sudhakar_lendave · New User Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Posts: 48 Location: mumbai

so can we use COPY statement in Environment division?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:51 pm

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:06 pm

Hello,

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

IBM, in their COBOL manual calls "COPY" a "Compiler Directing Statement".