On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:13:52 -0500, Peter Ten Eyck wrote: >I have had some programmers come to me with this issue. It appears that we >have a new system (web app.) which is sending bad data in several locations >to our mainframe (COBOL programs). The proper thing to do is to correct the >web app. so that it send the data correct. While we wait for that fix to occur, I >am looking into if there is a way without changing the COBOL code to catch >this bad data by forcing an abend.
The mainframe application should always validate the data when it comes from an external source. -- 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
