On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:43:53 -0500, Dave Kopischke wrote: > >I think I'd write a REXX routine and call it from COBOL. > >You'd code 10,000 lines of COBOL to emulate what PARSE is capable of doing >off-the-shelf.
10,000 lines? I don't think so. I'm sure your ReXX skills far surpass mine, but I think I could process any report in COBOL in far less than 10,000 lines of code. The OP specifically asked about doing it in COBOL. He didn't describe the format of the report or why he thought it should be copied to a different format. Thus we can only guess what kind of code would be good to process it. If, for example, the report is in a fixed tabular form, COBOL might be a good choice. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
