See below "Ulrich Krueger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > My COBOL is getting a little rusty from disuse ... but, > (1) shouldn't the FD clause in the sample program below contain > DATA RECORDS ARE x, y, z > (where x, y, z refer to the 01-level record layout descriptions?
NO, that clause was always optional and is now obsolete > (2) what about the clause > RECORD VARYING FROM 59 TO 1500 CHARACTERS > Shouldn't the values inlcude the 4 bytes RDW, in other words, shouldn't it > read > RECORD VARYING FROM 63 TO 1504 CHARACTERS ??? NO, the size should NOT include the RDW> > > I'd appreciate some refresher on that and I'd also appreciate if the OP > would be so good and post a fragment of the code that works for him, after > all the bugs have been worked out, just so we can all learn from it. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
