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ArchanaAbhinay
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| Can anyone please tell me how to declare a workfile in working storage section? |
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expat
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| Define workfile ............. is it a temporary file or what ? |
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ArchanaAbhinay
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ya..it is a temporary file.
I want to write some data to a flat file.
so instaed of directly writing into the file i want to write it first to a workfile and then to flat file. |
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PeterHolland
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| So i understand the workfile is NOT a flat file. |
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ArchanaAbhinay
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| it should be a flat file. |
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PeterHolland
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| So define the workfile as you would do for the flatfile. |
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Manny5
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Well I am not sure what is your requirement. If you could share that if will make more sense and there could be a better way of doing things.
Else i am with Peter. If its a FB you may like to put into array for less number of records and do manipulation if needed. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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| in cobol arrays are called cobol internal tables. arrays belong to other languages. java, c; db2 host variable arrays. |
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expat
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| ArchanaAbhinay wrote: |
ya..it is a temporary file.
I want to write some data to a flat file.
so instaed of directly writing into the file i want to write it first to a workfile and then to flat file. |
So why do you want to write it out twice, with once being to a file that gets deleted.
Perhaps if you made the effort to give some detail of exactly what it is that you wish to accomplish then maybe the COBOL wizards will tell you either how to do this, or suggest a much better way in which to accomplish your task. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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I realize that this is trivial,
but files are not defined in working-storage.
but ignorance of the programming language
has not prevented these kind of questions in the past,
nor, probably in the future.
echoing expat's comment:
this sounds like another example of a solution looking for a problem,
especially since the TS has not bothered to elaborate. |
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ArchanaAbhinay
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i solved my problem by just declaring a record having all the values which are liked to be moved.
and then moving them to the file. |
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expat
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| OK, I am not a programmer, but why do you want to write them once and then again to a different file. Why write them twice when once will suffice. Unless of course you have just purchased a few shares in Big Blue. |
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ArchanaAbhinay
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No..the actual problem is i am getting some garbage values in the output.
so to sort it out i tried with temporary file. |
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