RE: A little shudder here

Joe,

This might be helpful:

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         INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
         FILE-CONTROL.

                   select dspfile    assign to workstation-SE802D-si
                                     access mode  is sequential
                                     organization is transaction
                                     file status  is dsp-status.

         DATA DIVISION.
         FILE SECTION.
       fd  dspfile.
       01  dsprecd             pic x(1920).


       WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
       01  dspfile-area.
             copy dds-M3MAP-O     of SE802D.

       01  indicator-area.
             copy dds-all-formats-indic of SE802D
               replacing
                 IN50 by wht-message
                 IN51 by red-message.

         PROCEDURE DIVISION.
      *----                                         Send Screen
           write dsprecd
               from       M3MAP-O
               format     'M3MAP'
               indicators m3map-o-indic
           end-write.
      *----                                         Read screen
           read dspfile record
               into       M3MAP-O
               format     'M3MAP'
           end-read.


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Replace SE802D with your display file name.
Replace M3MAP  with your DDS record name.

Terry




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:00 PM
> To: cobol400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: 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