Getting error while Declaring Cursor in COBOL

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:27 pm

Since clicking the link didn't work, in that it attempted to take you to a site which doesn't exist, why didn't you copy/paste what you could see, or even retype it in that boxy-looking thing at the top of the screen. The URL is valid, it was just formatted incorrectly in the post.

Don't be afraid to try things. May tell you something. May not. If you don't try it, it definitely won't tell you anything. This has quite general application.

Things not to try included pressing the Emergency Stop on the CPU, stepping off the top of Fire Escapes etc. If it seems highly unlikely to cause any problem (like typing a URL) then give it a go.

vishalbshah · New User Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 61 Location: Pune

Hi Bill,

I tried the Copy paste of the link eventually and found the answer to my question but i think our replies are too faster.

As I am in the Office premises, so when the link didn't work while clicking on it I thought the link might be of one of the "blocked" sites and so I should not open it.

Anyway, I am appearing for COBOL and JCL exam in a month's time. so I want to read more and more documents on these subjects.

I thank you both !

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:39 pm

Hello,

I don't know if this matters (and i'm not able to test this now), but this is the first time i've noticed a cursor declared WITH HOLD and then later in the same declaration having FOR READ ONLY specified

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:13 pm

as more and more db2 programmers
finally
learned that they needed to commit read-only cursors, also,
the requirement for WITH HOLD and FOR READ ONLY became common.

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:02 am

Thank you, kind sir

I Will learn more of this. . .

d