How to Prepare Reports using COBOL

AnuB · New User Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 33

Hi All !

Can we prepare Reports using COBOL , if so, then

how can we achieve it ?

also pls let me know if there are any other ways of preparing reports in Mainframes , like by using JCL or some other tools or utilities in Mainframes.

Regards,
Anu

karthi_ind · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:14 pm

Hi Anu,

By using Qmf, we can create reports.
It is called QMF PROC.

Qmf is a third party tool. It is not a ibm tool.
Instead of using Spufi we can use Qmf.
It is used to generate reports.
It depends upon the projects.

Corrections are welcome

Karthi G.

Sridevi_C · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:51 pm

Hi,
Reports can be generated in COBOL by using the report section of data division.
Thanks!
Sridevi.

amolghorpade · New User Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

hi Anu,

reports are generated in COBOL by using report section or by using logic i.e. we can declare a datatype of structure similar to how we want the report like
01 rep-rec.
05 rep-name pic x(5).
05 filler pic x(4).
etc...............
corrections are welcomed.
tell me if there are any other methods or tools.

canam · New User Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 4

Sophisticated text, graphical or web based reports can be created visually with Turbo Reports for COBOL. It has a great visual designer and a full COBOL source code generator. You can download an eval version from www.reports4cobol.com.