FYI, There are ways that one can "sort-of" get around this (well-documented) restriction by using the REPLACE statement rather than the REPLACING phrase of the COPY statement, but these can complicated and error-prone.
"Phillips, Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED] p.principal.com>... > From the COBOL Language Reference: "COPY statements can be nested. > However, nested COPY statements cannot contain the REPLACING phrase, and > a COPY statement with the REPLACING phrase cannot contain nested COPY > statements." > > What you're trying to do is not allowed by the compiler. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Amlan Prasad > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 6:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Expanding Copybook inside Copybook > > Hi, > > I have a copybook inside a copybook. The first copybook is using COPY > option > with REPLACE. The inside copybook is not getting expanded during > compilation > and hence I am getting compile errors. > Is there any option to expand all the nested copybooks. > > Thanks, > Amlan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
