88 Level with Multiple Value in WHERE Clause

mistah kurtz · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 2:40 pm

Hi All,

Can I use an 88 Level variable which can have multiple values in a WHERE clause.
For Ex: My 88 Level variable definition is as:

GuyC · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 2:56 pm

mistah kurtz · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:39 pm

Thanks GuyC

Bill Woodger · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:55 pm

When you SET ... TO TRUE the data-name gets the first value from the 88, so that the 88 will be "true". The data-name can only have one value.

mistah kurtz · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:41 pm

Thanks Bill.
But then how does this work in IF statements.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:04 pm

Hello,

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:56 pm

You have made a fairly common mistake. WS-VALID-STATUS and WS-INVALID-STATUS are not variable in COBOL They are called conditionals and cannot be considered variables. Hence you cannot use one as a host variable. If you expand your IF statement by using the LIST option in your COBOL compile, you will see your IF WS-VALID-STATUS actually expands into a series of pseudo-assembler statements, each one comparing the value of WS-STATUS against one of the values the conditional references.

mistah kurtz · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 10:44 am

Thanks everyone for your valuable suggestions.

I didn't get a chance to test properly. May be I have missed tsomething. We are having some problem with the Changeman. Yesterday they fixed the problem, but that was momentary. So currently I can't compile or bind, until the problem is resolved.

I will do a proper testing and update my results here.

Thanks again.
Neeraj.

GuyC · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:27 pm

only thing that slightly looks like what you want is :

mistah kurtz · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:05 pm

Hi All,

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:37 pm

Good to hear it is working - thank you for the testing and followup

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