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Please suggest me how to do this one??? Is there any way to do

[Nic Clouston]

you could overlay define the record layouts on a common area and process according to some record identifier.
You could probably use Easytrieve or SAS or possibly even ice/synctool.
Really depends on what else they do.
On the other hand - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And the code as-is is simpler and thus easier to maintain.
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Utility and Program control cards are NOT, repeat NOT, JCL.

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is there any means to do using the cobol??/

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can we use VB file description in a separate copybook so that it can be accessed everytime if FB is going to be a problem. please correct me if i'm wrong.

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

sure you can!

do you mean each file would have its own FD or would you dynamically allocate each file?

are you capable of writing the code to keep track of what you are doing if you where to use dynamic allocation? like, what file is this?, what fields (for the appliaction) to populate with what.

by the way, why do you want to replace modular programming techniques with this kind of out-dated silliness? Big modules are a thing of the past. each program should perform only one function - to write one module to process 22 files is not good programming practice. not only will the load module be very large, any change to one file's logic will require recomp/link of the complete module - and if you are a static link shop, you have just increased you error possibility by a gazillion.

you should learn about good programming practices before you start this kind of stuff. you are lucky that your shop seems to have a base start on modular techniques - I doubt if they will allow you to drag them back into the dark ages...........
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

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the functionality of all the programs is just read a file, write a file and closing the file.

just to know is there any possibility of doing that... its nothing that we should learn about good programming practice. if u know u can suggest some things but not to give comments like this...

anyway i understood that u r a greatttttt programmer

[Nic Clouston]

You could probably use ICETOOL but without knowing what processing is going on inside each program it is hard to say. If the only processing is as you say then IEBGENER/ICEGENER/ICETOOL could do the job.
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Utility and Program control cards are NOT, repeat NOT, JCL.

[kolusu]

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[acevedo]