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Could you simply copy "compare 'my.hlq.cobol(member)' " to the clipboard, then paste the clipboard contents into your command line of the member you're editing?

Good point. Be sure to read all about INITIALIZE in the manual. It does/does not do what you might expect.

One option would be to INITIALIZE the copybook one time, save it off, and every time thereafter, move the saved off initialized copybook to copybook.

Vijay,
Neither of your PERFORMs modifies the value of J. That's why it's LOW-VALUES.

Have you compiled with/without the REPLACE OFF and compared the results?

It's been a long time ago, but if I remember correctly, it means, "skip expanding the member named in the copy statement". It was a method of reducing the length of the listing. Have you tri ...

That one worked:

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I get it also, kolusu:

Hmm. Weâ€™re having trouble finding that site.

We canâ€™t connect to the server at ehone.ibm.com.

If that address is correct, here are three other things you ...

Of course!

Sorry -- just testing.

gps 94,
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You need to determine what the values of WS-IN-POS and WS-VAR-TAG-POS were at the time that MOVE statement was executed. Somehow, a greater than character (X'6E') got moved into position 7 of OUT2-COU ...

OUT2-COUNT is an elementary item. What is the group item it belongs to and does it get modified before you ADD 1 TO OUT2-COUNT? You could redefine OUT2-COUNT as PIC X(9) and prior to ADDing, insert t ...

Yes, he WILL be missed. He was one of the more prolific and helpful folks on these boards.

Would another option be to redefine t-idam-tbl so now you have the same table sorted in 2 different sequences. I don't think COBOL allows the same table to have 2 different keys for the same table at ...