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abdulrafi
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Hi,
I have used a PS file in my cobol program to open it in IO mode. I need to read the file and do some manipulation and also i need to write the same file once again when the program abends. but when i write the PS file it shows "write failed". is it because i have opened the file in IO mode.
Note: the file would have only one record every time the program runs or no records.
Could you please suggest of any idea?. Whether REWRITE option could resolve it ?. |
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Bill O'Boyle
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If the file is truly empty and the COBOL program attempts to Open it as I-O (really should be OUTPUT), this will raise an error.
Can you prime the file in a previous step, by writing a single record to it?
The record-contents are yours to choose, but a LOW-VALUES record is used quite often as a "Primer".
When your program Opens the file as I-O, you need to Read the file (maybe or maybe not) and bypass this LOW-VALUES record.
But the fact that the file contains a LOW-VALUES record will allow the Open I-O to occur.
HTH....
Mr. Bill |
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Jose Mateo
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Good afternoon!
When opening the file as I-O if you get a status of X'05' then you know that the file is empty and should be doing a write to the file otherwise if you are to modifying the record then you should be doing a rewrite to the file. If no condition is raised on the open then you should have a counter or flag for the input records and when reading the input at end condition you should test the counter or flag for records read if no records were read then should be doing a write to the file otherwise if you are to modifying the record then you should be doing a rewrite to the file. |
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Bill Woodger
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| abdulrafi wrote: |
Hi,
I have used a PS file in my cobol program to open it in IO mode. I need to read the file and do some manipulation and also i need to write the same file once again when the program abends. but when i write the PS file it shows "write failed". is it because i have opened the file in IO mode.
Note: the file would have only one record every time the program runs or no records.
Could you please suggest of any idea?. Whether REWRITE option could resolve it ?. |
If'm confused. Can you please re-state what you are trying to do with the file?
If you have errors, can you post the errors as produced in full, including any messages on the job output. Do you know the file-status you received? |
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Craq Giegerich
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| abdulrafi wrote: |
| i need to write the same file once again when the program abends. |
It is very difficult to write to a file after the program abends! |
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dick scherrer
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| I have used a PS file in my cobol program to open it in IO mode. I need to read the file and do some manipulation and also i need to write the same file once again when the program abends. |
Why was this choice made. . . 
None of the systems i've worked on in a very long time permits this. It is just a terrible design.
I'm sure there are some who can say they "had to do this", but i've not yet seen a business or technical reason to do so. Of many implementations, this is usually the worst possible choice.
Just because it can be made to work sometimes, is NO reason to do this. |
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