I HAVE 2 INPUT FILES WITH SAME LAYOUT I WANT 3 OUTPUTS

PK440 · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2021 Posts: 2 Location: India

I HAVE 2 INPUT FILES WITH SAME LAYOUT I WANT 3 OUTPUTS. NEED 1ST OUTPUT WITH UNIQUE ACCOUNTS OF FILE1 2ND OUTPUT WITH UNIQUE ACCOUNTS OF FILE2 AND 3RD OUTPUT WITH COMMON ACCOUNTS OF BOTH FILE1 AND FILE 2. NEED A COBOL PROGRAM TO SATISFY THIS REQUIREMENT.
INPUT FILE : FIXED BYTE (STATIC FILES)

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:55 pm

looks like a 1st of april joke
will a kind hearted moderator clean up this garbage

PK440 · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2021 Posts: 2 Location: India

enrico-sorichetti may be you are pro in cobol programming but not in hleping. If you can share the knowledge please share

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:14 pm

please be honest toward Yourself and the rest of the forum audience please

reread carefully what You have written and tell if that is the proper way to ask for help
you are not asking for help you are requesting somebody to do the job for which You are getting paid
not even giving enough information about it

here is a hint ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=22649

to make the most out of forum participation
it would be very useful for You to read and meditate on ...

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

and most probably You might feel more comfortable asking on the sibling forum
www.ibmmainframeforum.com
targeted to beginners

steve-myers · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:32 am

As Enrico says, or at least implies, this is very much a beginners question. This forum is intended for people with considerable experience. In addition, all we got out your initial post is two inputs and three outputs. Nothing about the contents of the output data sets, or what analysis is performed by your proposed program.

Now I am not a Cobol programmer and rarely post in his section. I can not provide any guidance.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:51 am

when I see posts like the one that started this topic I look at the TS profile
to see what kind of behaviour I/we might be facing

as expected ... I was classified as the bad guy

anyway the ts wrote

Pandora-Box · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 1:04 am

Pk440

This is a very basic problem and most of them who have undergone COBOL would have gone through this.

Practice problem

Start with the other group please as suggested

www.ibmmainframeforum.com/ibm-cobol/file-match-merge-sample-code-t881.html

The best place for you is to start here

Once you have acquired the essential skills and yet you face issues in resolving the errors you could post here someone would be around to assist

Locking topic

Edit: The same link is available as sticky in Cobol section