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daks

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:04 am
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Could anyobdy expalin me the user of FILLER

01 FILLER PIC X(9).
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agkshirsagar

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:32 am
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user of filer? icon_confused.gif or Uses of filler?
Did you face any interview question like that?

FILLER can be used to align numeric variables to word boundaries for performance improvement.

When you intialize a group variable, filler fields are unaffected. This can be used to our advantage. for example in date fields-
Code:
01 date-fl.
   05 mm pic xx.
   05 filler pic x value '/'.
   05 dd pic xx.
   05 filler pic x value '/'.
   05 yy pic xx.

By declaring this variable we need not move '/' as a separator even if we use and initialize date-fl in program many times.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:06 pm
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daks,

Generally FILLER is used for creating SLACK BYTES.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:23 pm
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thanks for reply...
but i got a code where FILLER used in the following way..
i cant understand this...
please help me out?


WS-ORD-DATE PIC 9(08) VALUE ZEROES.
FILLER REDEFINES WS-ORD-DATE.
10 WS-ORD-DATE-CC PIC 9(02).
10 WS-ORD-DATE-FMT PIC 9(06).
10 FILLER REDEFINES WS-ORD-DATE-FMT.
15 WS-ORD-DATE-YY PIC 9(02).
15 WS-ORD-DATE-MM PIC 9(02).
15 WS-ORD-DATE-DD PIC 9(02).
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chiranjeevi_mca

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:18 pm
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Hi

Filler is the purpose of declaring the variable with out specify any name.

Ex:

01 Todays-Date
02 Todays-CCYY Pic X(4)
02 Filler Pic X(1) Value '/'
02 Todays-MM Pic x(2)
02 Filler Pic X(1) Value '/'
02 Todays-DD Pic x(2)

move '2007' to Todays-CCYY
move '09' to Todays-MM
move '14' to Todays-DD

Display Todays-Date
It display's '2007/09/14'. It occupies the size of 10 bytes.

In Your Example:

WS-ORD-DATE is the Numeric Variable and size is 8 bytes.

FILLER REDEFINES WS-ORD-DATE means :
The Programmer using the same memory of WS-ORD-DATE and the expanded dataitems for filler will use to change the values.

10 WS-ORD-DATE-CC PIC 9(02).
10 WS-ORD-DATE-FMT PIC 9(06).
10 FILLER REDEFINES WS-ORD-DATE-FMT.
15 WS-ORD-DATE-YY PIC 9(02).

Ex: If the value of WS-ORD-DATE is '20070914'
Then If you want to display the Century
Display WS-ORD-DATE-CC. It display's 20
Display WS-ORD-DATE-YY . It display's 07

Like that it will be useful

Regards,
Chiranjeevi.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:18 pm
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its ok now.....
thanks chiranjeevi................
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:44 am
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daks wrote:

01 FILLER PIC X(9).

Bad example. Filler is never used at 01 or 77 levels.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:43 pm
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Never say never...
I have seen it in many programs....
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CICS Guy

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:48 pm
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77 levels might be hard to justify as FILLER, but 01 are quite often FILLER (usually without the VALUE)....
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lcmontanez

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:05 pm
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FYI, you don't need to code filler with the latest cobol compiler in some situations

01 Pic X will work.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:52 pm
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Hello,

Quote:
but 01 are quite often FILLER
This is quite common with the FILLER redefines another 01 but doesn't need a name. . .
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:27 am
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CICS Guy wrote:
but 01 are quite often FILLER (usually without the VALUE)....
You've done it. You made me curious. Can you give some sample code how to use a "01 filler" definition?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:26 pm
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Code:

013400 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.                           
013500 77  FILLER                  PIC X(32)      VALUE   
013600              'WWWWWWWWWW  LU001  WWWWWWWWWWWWW'.   

and
Code:

016100 01  DATUM                       PIC 9(8).           
016200 01  FILLER   REDEFINES          DATUM.               
016300     05       DATUM-SS           PIC 99.             
016400     05       DATUM-AA           PIC 99.             
016500     05       FILLER             PIC 9(4).           
016600 01  KODER.                                           
016700     05       DUMP               PIC X      VALUE 'E'.
016800     05       FELKOD             PIC S9(5)  COMP-3.   
016900*                                                     
017000 01  W-SKILLNAD-SEK                  PIC 9(8).       
017100 01  FILLER       REDEFINES W-SKILLNAD-SEK.           
017200     15  W-Z410-SS                   PIC 99.         
017300     05  W-SKILLNAD                  PIC 9(6).       
017400     05  FILLER   REDEFINES W-SKILLNAD.               
017500         10       W-Z410-AR-MAN.                     
017600          15      W-Z410-AR          PIC 99.         
017700          15      W-Z410-MAN         PIC 99.         
017800         10       W-Z410-DAG         PIC 99.         


This is from a online program (IMS) dated from 1981 and still running..
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:44 pm
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ulfnsc wrote:
This is from a online program (IMS) dated from 1981 and still running.
Works for me....grin.....
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