Difference between copylib & include in Cobol

Priya Rathi · New User Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

Hi all,

I want to know what is the exact difference between copylib & include in cobol.

Thanks & Regards
Priya

raghunathns · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:10 pm

Include will expand during precompile stage. db2 layouts

copy expands during compile stage. cobol layouts.

unni_nss · New User Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 19

actaually,
copylib means copybooklibrary in Mainframe environment,like proclib.so,its a library name.And INCLUDE is jcl statement like JOB,EXEC etc:
In cobol there is a COPY statement and in jcl it's INCLUDE stmt.
let me know,if i am wrong.

Priya Rathi · New User Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

Hi,

Thanks Raghunathns for giving answer.

ofer71 · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:22 pm

Actually, INCLUDE is a SQL statement, as you can see in the fine manual.

O.

martin9 · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:27 pm

INCLUDE is no cobol statement,
it is like a copy statement, but using
a copybook, generated with dclgen.
at the end, you will have the same
a copy structure....
you just don't have the ability with the REPLACE phrase...

martin9