An invalid separate sign was detected in program

dkalyan_c · New User Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 17

I am doing the below MOVE operation in my Cobol pgm and when i run the job, i am getting error as

"An invalid separate sign was detected in program XXX on line 1234" .

a-amt PIC S9(07)V99 SIGN IS LEADING SEPARATE CHARACTER.
b-amt PIC S9(7)V99 SIGN IS LEADING SEPARATE.

MOVE a-amt TO b-amt.

Can omeone help me if the Variable declration is correct.

Nic Clouston · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:31 pm

Have you checked the manual? If the compiler passed it, as you suggest (because you say you are running the program so presumably you have compiled and linked it) then why are you doubting the syntax? And which is line 1234?

Bill Woodger · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:48 pm

Presumably the message reference that you felt would not be of use to us was IGZ0040S?

If you look the message up, you'll see why it was generated.

From what you've shown so far, that's about all we can say.

dkalyan_c · New User Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 17

If the MOVE statement is fine, then why i am getting the below error message when i run the job .

"An invalid separate sign was detected in program XXX on line 1234" .

Any suggestion pls

Bill Woodger · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:07 pm

It has been suggested to you twice to look at the meaning of the message (look it up an the relevant manual). This is easy. Copy/paste the first part of the message into a search box and click/press carriage-return.

Exactly why you get that failure, we can't tell from what you have shown. So, look at the message. If still stuck, you'll have to post the relevant information from the declarations and explain what the source of the fields is.

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 4:53 pm