Re: newbie: simple file output problem, debugging

Are you sure MYLIB is in the library-list?

Are there other THEFILE's on the system?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jared" <jhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "cobol400 list" <cobol400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:30 AM
Subject: [COBOL400-L] newbie: simple file output problem, debugging


> Hi all.
>
> My program runs without complaint, but when I check the output file, it
> seems to be totally empty.  It used to complain, but then I started
> calling it after creating an output file with the following command:
>
>   CRTPF FILE(MYLIB/THEFILE) RCDLEN(16384) FILETYPE(*DATA) MBR(*FILE)
>
> The COBOL contains blocks like these:
>
> file-control.
>    select thefile assign to thefile.
> data division.
> file section.
>  fd  thefile.
>  01  named-rec  pic x(16384).
>
> [omit working-storage, linking sections, procedure division header]
> [inside main procedure:]
>
> open output thefile
> perform set-named-rec-value
> if return-code = 0
>   write named-rec
> end-if
> close thefile
> .
>
> Do I need to create the output file in a different way?  Am I not telling
> the COBOL program enough about file?
>
> I also don't know how to debug the running COBOL program to check whether
> named-rec is being set correctly.  I'm on V5R2.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jared
>
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