On Nov 12, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
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From: Bill Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...
The documented (and functional) way to do partial replacement in
current
COBOL is documented at:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-
bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/igy3lr31/8.1.7.3
Yes, I am well aware of that method. It requires changing the
contents of
the copybook. If I may quote my original situation:
"... where an older copybook did not have separators around the
leading
prefix, so it could not be replaced."
IOW, this copybook does NOT have "tagged" prefix "words" for each
variable,
just normal COBOL words. The copybook can be used WITHOUT any
REPLACING
strings.
I want to be able to use REPLACING for such a copybook WITHOUT
modifying the
copybook (because I don't own it and am not allowed to change it).
Why can't we do such a simple thing?
Peter
Peter,
There are usually ways around this one is to copy the member to a
different library and change and then when you compile just add the
library in front of the concatenation. As to why... ask the dark side:)
Ed
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