On 27 Dec 2007 10:35:27 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Comstock) wrote: >Using DISPLAY to generate a report is very inefficient >relative to using an FD and OPEN, CLOSE, and WRITE verbs. >(Unless, of course, you OPEN-WRITE-CLOSE for every record!) >You can't believe the number of COBOL training courses that >use DISPLAY and ACCEPT to get programmers writing complete >programs quickly. This may be one reason many COBOL >programmers use this approach: it's the first one they >see.
The place where I always use DISPLAY is in the error processing paragraph, especially in IDMS programs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
