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ManjulaRajamurugan

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:39 pm
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Hi,
Is there any method to find the length of copybooks? other than counting the length of individual fields included in that copybook?
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Do you have FileAid?

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By using listcatentries in the Copy book list we can find the length of the copy book.
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may i know where to give it? that listcatentries?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:54 pm
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also can we find it using option 3 and then 13?
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After entering your Pds name in option 3.4 we will get a list of copy books included in this pds,within the command line we can type 'listcat entries(/) all' then we can see the full details including its length.
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ok thanks
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'Welcome'
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not really sure how listcat can provide you a list of lengths that are derived by adding element lengths.

are you not just receiving a list of number of records (lines) in each copybook?

normally, looking at a compile listing will provide you the length.

I have a special program that has nothing except copy statements in linkage section. that means the compiler will start at relative zero for each level 01 encounterd, thus displacements (relative locations) are oriented to the begining of the copybook.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:23 pm
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what about ?
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DISPLAY LENGTH OF yourcopybook
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:45 pm
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acevedo,

Not sure about this but I think "LENGTH OF" needs a variable name.

Maybe:
DISPLAY LENGTH OF 01 level in yourcopybook ?

PS to Manjula:
Some copybooks may have multiple 01 levels.
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our standards says: if any, only one 01 level por copybook.
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The PS was for Manjula.
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My reply was not the result of thinking that PS was for me, it was just a comment.
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The following is primarily for OS/VS COBOL but can certainly be used in COBOL2 and greater.

You could call the following sub-program 'GETLGTH', passing four binary-fword parameters.
Code:

01  WS-GETLGTH PIC X(08) VALUE 'GETLGTH'.
01  WS-FIELD-LGTH PIC 9(08) COMP.
01  WS-BOOK-LGTH PIC 9(08) COMP.
01  WS-COPYBOOK-START.
    03..........
    03..........
    03..........
    03 WS-LAST-FIELD PIC X(20).
*
MOVE 20 TO WS-FIELD-LGTH.
*
CALL WS-GETLGTH USING WS-COPYBOOK-START,
                      WS-LAST-FIELD,
                      WS-FIELD-LGTH,
                      WS-BOOK-LGTH.

After return back from "GETLGTH", WS-BOOK-LGTH will contains the overall length from the first byte of WS-COPYBOOK-START through the last byte of WS-LAST-FIELD.
Code:

GETLGTH  CSECT                                                           
         USING *,R3                INFORM ASSEMBLER                       
         SAVE (14,12)              SAVE REGISTERS                         
         LA    R3,0(,R15)          R3 IS BASE                             
         LM    R5,R8,0(R1)         PARM-ADDRESSABILITY                   
         LA    R8,0(,R8)           CLEAR TOP-BIT                         
         L     R6,0(,R6)           END-ADDRESS INTO R6                   
         S     R6,0(,R5)           SUBTRACT START-ADDRESS FWORD           
         A     R6,0(,R7)           ADD LAST-FIELD'S FWORD-LGTH           
         BCTR  R6,0                REDUCE BY 1                           
         ST    R6,0(,R8)           STORE IN 4TH-PARM                     
         LA    R15,0               SET RETURN-CODE                       
         CR    R6,R15              EXCEEDS ZERO?                         
         BH    RTN2CLLR            YES, RETURN TO CALLER                 
         ST    R15,0(,R8)          ENSURE X'00'S                         
         LA    R15,16              SET RETURN-CODE                       
RTN2CLLR EQU   *                                                         
         RETURN (14,12),RC=(15)    RESTORE AND RETURN                     
GETLGTH  AMODE 31                                                         
GETLGTH  RMODE ANY                                                       
         YREGS                     REGISTER-EQUATE MACRO                 
         END   ,                   END 'GETLGTH'                         

HTH....

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http://groups.google.be/group/bit.listserv.tsorexx/browse_thread/thread/d60c97b35839e3ff/bdcec8b86fb6ecae?lnk=gst&q=rexx+record+calculation#bdcec8b86fb6ecae
See first thread.

Tribute of Mark Harrington.

Just perfect.

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Sincere apologies to one and all regarding the GETLGTH Assembler sub-program previously posted. I must have had my head up my A$$ because this previous version WILL NOT WORK and with that, please use the replacement GETLGTH sub-program below.

The Caller's parmlist of four arguments remains the same.

Code:

GETLGTH  CSECT                                                           
         USING *,R3                INFORM ASSEMBLER                       
         SAVE (14,12)              SAVE REGISTERS                         
         LA    R3,0(,R15)          R3 IS BASE                             
         LM    R5,R8,0(R1)         PARM-ADDRESSABILITY                   
         LA    R5,0(,R5)           CLEAR TOP-BIT                         
         LA    R6,0(,R6)           SAME                                   
         LA    R7,0(,R7)           SAME                                   
         LA    R8,0(,R8)           SAME                                   
         XC    0(4,R8),0(R8)       ENSURE X'00'S                         
         LR    R1,R6               LOAD END-ADDRESS                       
         SLR   R1,R5               REDUCE BY START-ADDRESS               
         AL    R1,0(,R7)           ADD LAST-FIELD'S LGTH                 
         LA    R15,16              SET 'BAD' RETURN-CODE                 
         CHI   R1,0                NEGATIVE?                     
         BL    RTN2CLLR            YES, RETURN TO CALLER
         LA    R15,8               RESET RETURN-CODE
         BE    RTN2CLLR            RETURN WHEN ZERO           
         ST    R1,0(,R8)           STORE RESULT IN 4TH-PARM               
         SLR   R15,R15             ALL IS WELL                           
RTN2CLLR EQU   *                                                         
         RETURN (14,12),RC=(15)    RESTORE AND RETURN                     
GETLGTH  AMODE 31                                                         
GETLGTH  RMODE ANY                                                       
         YREGS                     REGISTER-EQUATE MACRO                 
         END   ,                   END 'GETLGTH'                         

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If you have Fileaid, use option 3.8

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Option 8 (XREF) will give you the length !!
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DISPLAY LENGTH OF yourcopybook

Hello, but I am having a doubt about this syntaxes. The compiler it is not compiling "LENGTH OF". Also before I am mentioned that it is also not liking the EVALUATES syntax. Is the LENTH OF the valid COBOLs?
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Hello,

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The compiler it is not compiling "LENGTH OF".
And it should not/will not. . . .

That suggestion was for using fileaid, not compiling a program.
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acevedo wrote:
what about ?
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Mr dick, I am sure this is meant to be the COBOL
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Hello,

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Mr dick, I am sure this is meant to be the COBOL
Why so sure? Your certainty is misplaced if you mean the cobol compiler.

There is no "display length of" in the IBM mainframe cobol language.

The suggestion was for displaying the length using fileaid.
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I am really not being so sure. In COBOL we are having the DISPLAY verb and we are also having "LENGTH OF".

Why is then DISPLAY LENGTH OF VARIABLE not being COBOL?

Is DISPLAY also being a command of the FILEAID? If this is being so then I have never been seeing it.
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I am back to this question and back to my answer.
The handy tool of Mark H. is just perfect for that.
On top of that the poster seems to want to calculate the length outside a program, just online in ISPF.
But maybe noone does the effort to go inside the link and to open the first thread of Mark H.

Ohh these days ...

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