Moving Or setting POINTER to another POINTER variable

sankol1 · New User Joined: 23 Feb 2023 Posts: 1 Location: India

Hi All,
New to mainframe forum - I have following requirement.
Copybook A
01 var-A.
05 var-1 usage pointer.
05 var-2 PIC X(10).
05 var-3 PIC x(5).
05 var-4 usage pointer.
Copybook B
01 var-B.
05 var-11 usage pointer.
05 var-22 usage pointer.
05 var-33 PIC X(15).

I need to set var-11 , var-22 of copybookB to var-1 , var-4 of copybook A.
I cannot use move statement so how I can achieve this ?

sergeyken · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:55 am

Did you ever try to read any document, or to use Google?

www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.3?topic=considerations-using-pointers-in-ile-cobol-program

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 9:23 am

You are going to have many problems if you don't learn how to find things yourself. Look at the SET statement.