To one and all, Happy Holidays and long live Admiral Grace Hopper!!! We enter a new millenium using a language invented in the 1940s, created by a woman who ...
Passaros5@...
Jan 1, 2001 3:55 pm
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Passaros5: I share your tremendous admiration and respect for the significant accomplishments of Rear Admiral Ret. Grace Murray Hopper. But I'm afraid that I...
Bob Wolfe
rtwolfe@...
Jan 2, 2001 2:45 pm
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i was taught by her, as well as jesse overton, in 1967 and still am a very active analyst--and will continue to be for many years to come, God willing........
John Leskanic
j_leskanic@...
Jan 3, 2001 5:23 pm
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I am working on a Lab for COBOL class and need some assistance. I have a file I created that contains 5 dates in format YYMMDD. I need to format the date as...
John Conklin
johnconklin@...
Jan 10, 2001 12:26 am
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Fellow Programmers, I may be going to Omaha, NE for a project and I would appreciate some help. I am going to need to choose a hotel to stay in and I would...
Glenn I. Johnson
glennijohnson@...
Jan 10, 2001 3:52 pm
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Century-Day is made up of the data elements year and day. The sequence is YYYYDDD; thus, a current date of July 1, 2001 would be expressed as 2001182. ...
Chris Rapu
chrisrapu@...
Jan 10, 2001 3:52 pm
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If you use ACCEPT DAY instead of ACCEPT DATE, you'll get a Julian date in the YYYYDDD format. Good luck. Dave Wieseneck HR Systems 415-396-7223...
wiesendi@...
Jan 10, 2001 3:54 pm
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john, those labs are for you to learn something, but, as i was taught in a different fashion in the ancient 1960's, i will give you some tips and perhaps some...
John Leskanic
j_leskanic@...
Jan 10, 2001 3:57 pm
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Thanks for the help. But my question now is does the ACCEPT statement work when pulling the date from a file and not the system? John ... From:...
John Conklin
johnconklin@...
Jan 10, 2001 6:53 pm
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No, ACCEPT is a system command. It pulls the date from the system. If you have to convert a Gregorian date to Julian, you probably have to code it yourself....
wiesendi@...
Jan 10, 2001 6:56 pm
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John, Going from Gregorian to Julian is fairly simple. Just remember to think in years and months. Also, don't forget leap years. Just break it down logically....
Mike
mbingle@...
Jan 10, 2001 8:24 pm
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ACCEPT will not work when pulling the date from a file. It uses the system date. You need to code this routine yourself, which is a bit much for a lab ...
Glenn I. Johnson
glennijohnson@...
Jan 10, 2001 9:12 pm
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if it has not already been mentioned try the 1989 specification intrinsic functions for date to integer & integer to date Dan ... From: Glenn I. Johnson...
Dan Pressler
dpressler@...
Jan 15, 2001 12:47 pm
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Can someone direct me to a decent online tutorial about using EVALUATE for validation of several pieces of incoming data? I have found some that use EVALUATE...
blalock
wikkit@...
Jan 24, 2001 1:20 am
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Hi there, Sorry for the OT cross posting, but I wanted to let you all know about a new group for users of 'Winbatch'. Winbatch will be a forum for old and new...
toby@...
Jan 25, 2001 5:22 pm
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Mr. Borck, "Just as you were lucky to find an Editor to publish your obvious and alarming ignorance about COBOL, we certainly hope that the same Editor will...
COBOL Gold Mine
cgm@...
Feb 2, 2001 10:21 pm
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This article just makes me laugh. Anyone who can use the phrase "...to achieve a cleaner, object-oriented structure suitable for high-availability, n-tier...
wiesendi@...
Feb 2, 2001 11:13 pm
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HURRAY! I AM A THIRTEEN YEAR COBOL PROGRAMMER and have been putting time at learning JAVA and VB concerned about my future. Your points taught me about...
Victor Valderrama
viscova@...
Feb 2, 2001 11:39 pm
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Hello All, Once again I have a question on COBOL. I am trying to take a stirng of 80 characters, move the first letter to the last position, print this line,...
John Conklin
johnconklin@...
Feb 3, 2001 11:45 pm
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How about trying something like this: display ws-string repeat 199 times ws-hold = ws-string (1:1) ws-string (1:1) = ws-string (26:1) ws-string (26:1) =...
dnikelshpu@...
Feb 4, 2001 2:08 am
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... From: "John Conklin" <johnconklin@...> To: "'cobolgoldmine@egroups.com'" <cobolgoldmine@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 2:53 PM ...
Ted Byers
tedbyers@...
Feb 4, 2001 12:41 pm
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Dear John, The program below is a way to solve your problem. identification division. program-id. conklin. data division. working-storage section. 01...
Hubert Dewitte
hubert.dewitte@...
Feb 4, 2001 12:41 pm
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Hi Hubert, Your solution to John's problem was pretty slick. I didn't realize you could use that sort of data reference in Cobol. I had used it in another ...
Ted Byers
tedbyers@...
Feb 4, 2001 10:26 pm
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Hi John, I have been a member of this group for a while now and this is my first response. I hope I am doing this right!! First of all I assume your...
Mick Ellis
mickellis@...
Feb 5, 2001 1:04 pm
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Lovely responses. The only thing I would add is, I have mixed emotions about Mr. Borck's statement "Making even minor changes to 30-year-old, 80-column source...
Karalee_Krueger@...
Feb 6, 2001 3:29 pm
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have been watching this and simply can not believe some of the explanations... was taught the language by the inventors of it.... and i have seen some...
John Leskanic
j_leskanic@...
Feb 6, 2001 3:29 pm
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... [snip excess text] Karalee: I'm sure that there are more than just a few 30 year old programs running. Most of them undergo routine maintainence from time...
Bob Wolfe
rtwolfe@...
Feb 6, 2001 4:25 pm
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John, Lighten up. These people are doing their best. I have 30 years with the language. We would all like to see your solution to the problem(s). Mike ... www....
Mike
mbingle@...
Feb 6, 2001 4:26 pm
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Karalee, I'm on old timer. I've seen PL1 come and go. I was amazed to see RPG take off and find its niche in the mid-range world. Now there C, C++, JAVA, XML,...
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