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  3. July 2002

RE: A little shudder here

> Just a further thought.
>
> There is no point in defining the Display file at all in the
> COBOL.  i.e. in
> the SELECT ... ASSIGN or in the File Section.  Unlike RPG these have no
> "under the cover" effects.  Just use the COPY DDS in WS and all is well.
>

I was making the assumption here Joe that you were doing this to produce
COBOL versions of your tool since you mention running in batch.  You
question about WRITE has me wondering now......

The syntax however is WRITE FD-record-name FROM WS-name

 Jon Paris
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