On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Ed Gould wrote:
I will go for it hey its almost Friday.
If you can't figure out what the message is saying open a PMR with
the COBOL people tell them for the up teenth time that these
messages are NOT self describing.
Ed
IGYPS0157-E A shift-out was found in column 50 without a
matching shift-in in a nonnumeric or national literal. The
literal was processed as written.
A shift-out without a shift-in? Pretty obvious.
IGYPS0158-E A nonnumeric or national literal containing double-
byte characters was found which exceeded the maximum literal
length or reached end of area "B" before terminating. A literal
delimiter was placed at column 72 of line nnnn
And you forgot to terminate or continue in accordance with the rules.
What is not self describing about these?
There are plenty of things to complain about with IBM's Cobol
implementation -- but their error messages are pretty good. Perhaps
even self-describing.
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