Is there any option of RESTART in COBOL

praneethgokul · New User Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Bangalore

Hi all,

Is there any option of RESTART in COBOL?

Please clarify me

Thanks in advance

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

Hi Praneethgoku,

Please explain your requirement.

Regards
Rupesh

radhakrishnan82 · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:57 pm

Restart what?

praneethgokul · New User Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Bangalore

hi everybody

Suppose I have a file of 1000 records. While reading it if it has an error at 95th record. Then I want to read the file again from 96th.
I dont want to read it again from 1st record. Is there any chance?

Please clarify me

radhakrishnan82 · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:28 pm

Assuming that you are reading vsam file records.
Implement restart logic so that it will skip all the records till the error record and read from 96th record.

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

Hi Praneethgokul,

I guess there is no Restart command as you want in COBOL. You have to implement logic in Cobol program.

Regards
Rupesh

michaelraj · New User Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 43 Location: Bangalore

Hi Praneeth,

There is no such option like Restart in cobol. If at all required we can have database variable like db_count which indicates how many records read and it will updates as soon as it read a record. If you got an error, then you can retrieve the value from DB and from there you can read again.

If at all you are reading and writing into another file, then you have to read the last record and from there you have to point to next record with START in read file and then proceed further.

I think this is the only possible way, if there are other ways let me know.

Regards,
Mike.

michaelraj · New User Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 43 Location: Bangalore

Hi praneeth,

We need Database variable if the program is abended and then again if you want to restart and perform at that point while reading the file. If the program is not abended then working storage variable is enough.
Regards,
Mike.

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

Hi Praneeth,

Have you looked in the manuals? There are 2 that you should search as a matter of course: The Reference manual and the Pgmr's Guide.

I looked and found more info than I care to read. Perhaps you will because you have the problem.

If you are not aware oof it, the manuals here at this site can be found by clicking "manuals" at the very to of the page. Click the manual that applies, scroll down to the index, click then scroll down to the "R"a and look for something like "restart" or "restarting" and get to work.

P.S. Checkpoint/Restart has been around for a looooooong time. By the way, this is a hint. More info can be found using "Checkpoint" as a search arg.