Re: Quick I hope COBOL question

2006-10-19 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Quick I hope COBOL question On 9 Oct 2006 14:24:46 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: I know

Re: Quick I hope COBOL question

2006-10-19 Thread Charles Mills
Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Quick I hope COBOL question -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark

Re: Quick I hope COBOL question

2006-10-19 Thread Steve Comstock
Charles Mills wrote: Thanks all! It's been working for over a week now g. It's one DISPLAY statement in a 200-line test program, and hopefully it's about the last COBOL program I have to write, so hopefully the way I did it (per the first suggestion received here) is good enough. The below

Re: Quick I hope COBOL question

2006-10-18 Thread Clark Morris
On 9 Oct 2006 14:24:46 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: I know this isn't the COBOL list. I'm not a COBOL programmer, so it all works out. I'm writing a quick COBOL test program. I've got a PIC X(64) field but the actual length of the data in the field is in a separate S9(4) field. I

Quick I hope COBOL question

2006-10-09 Thread Charles Mills
I know this isn't the COBOL list. I'm not a COBOL programmer, so it all works out. I'm writing a quick COBOL test program. I've got a PIC X(64) field but the actual length of the data in the field is in a separate S9(4) field. I want to display the real data and not whatever garbage might be

Re: Quick I hope COBOL question

2006-10-09 Thread Kirk Talman
77 D PIC X(64) . . . 77 L PIC S9(4) BINARY. . . . MOVE D (1:L) TO wherever . . . DISPLAY D (1:L) IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 10/09/2006 05:24:27 PM: I know this isn't the COBOL list. I'm not a COBOL programmer, so it all works out.

Re: Quick I hope COBOL question

2006-10-09 Thread Charles Mills
Awesome! Thanks, Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Talman Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Quick I hope COBOL question 77 D PIC X(64) . . . 77 L PIC