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  3. July 2002

RE: A little shudder here

WICKED MEAN EVIL COBOL.

<grumble>

Here's an interesting situation.  In RPG I can define a workstation file but
never open it.  This will automagically generate the field definitions for
all the fields in the display file, and so the program can continue to work
just fine in batch.

If, however, I try the same thing in COBOL, I get an MCH3601 error because
evidently the 01-level items (one for each record format) are evidently not
initialized unless the workstation file is open.

Does anybody have a way around this?  I even tried making the display file
DEV(*NONE) and even though I opened the file, I still got initialization
errors when attempting to access the fields in the display file.

Joe

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