Introduction to cobol declaring data in cobol basic. Trying to copy a copybook and replace the field prefixes when. I like the better than for the same reasons, but i would prefer, even more easier for me to type than. A cobol copybook is a selection of code that defines data structures. The comparison operation that determines text replacement starts with the leftmost source text word that follows the replace statement, and with the first word of pseudotext1. Safely transforming cobol copy statements with codeturn to. The replace statement must be terminated by a period. In general you may nest copybooks only if they do not contain the replacing phrase and do not cause recursion. I have a copybook, in which i need to change the first three characters of the variables. When the replacing phrase is specified, the library text is copied, and each properly matched occurrence of operand1 within the library text is replaced by the associated operand2. I tried using the copy book in cobol program along with replacing option as below. Trying to copy a copybook and replace the field prefixes when compiling using the following command.
We use the copy statement to include a copybook in a program. The cobol editor supports showing the contents of copybooks inline at the place. Cobol tutorial studay material copy copybook, goto etc, mainframe cobol files. Copy statement in cobol is replaced at compile time, while other. Copy statement with replacing in cobol stack overflow. The bottomline is that partial word replacement is not really supported but see below and wasnt in osvs cobol or any other ansi conforming compiler. Have you tried using symbolic constants instead of copy replacing. A character or a sequence of contiguous characters between. Copy d replacing drm by 1728937 this site in readonly mode may 7. But if we use the same copybook for multiple files in the same program,then there should be a way to differentiate both the files. Copy with replacing within copybook is it possible.
Now include copybook abc into your source program as follows. Replacement rules comment lines, inline comments, or blank lines that appear in the source text and in pseudotext1 are ignored for purposes of matching. A cobol copybook is a file that contains cobol source code and is used to. For example, if you want to use a generic data copybook in. Replacing to copy source text from a library file and replace sections of it as required. This is an example of a cobol program that uses copy files with the replacing function. The period is part of the replace statement and does not otherwise affect the program. Copy book replace, compilation is failing ibm mainframe. When the replacing phrase is not specified, the library text is copied unchanged. Due to this both the files will have same layout and we have to use the same copybook.
It is necessary to construct the copybook with words. The expanded copybook view with replaced values is readonly which is. The receiving host application should interpret the dollar sign as the currency it. That can be achieved by using replacing option in copybook in cobol. Search this forum for all terms copy replacing and you could find on the first page a response i made in july on a thread titled doubt in replacing in copy book with emphasis added.
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