RE: Strange problem with linkage variables! -- COBOL400-L

Title: RE: Strange problem with linkage variables!

Chandru,

That is the way I started. The problem was the nut behind the wheel, I was putting single ticks around the data in the parm field and for whatever reason, the system accepted all but the first (timestamp) field and placed them in their respective variables.

-----Original Message-----
From: chandru [mailto:ganduri@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 00:13
To: COBOL400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Strange problem with linkage variables!

Hi Howard,

In my opinion there is one way to overcome the
problem. Replace the group record in the Linkage
section with the exact structure as in Working storage
section and make elementary MOVES in place of the
Group move.

It sounds stupid but it works...see the example below:

1 WS-NEW-RECORD.

      2 WS-TMSTMP1-4564        Pic X(26).

      2 WS-TYP-LST-ACT-0044    Pic X(01).

       88 INSERT-PROCESS           VALUE "A".
       88 DELETE-PROCESS           VALUE "D".
      2 WS-CAGE-CD-9250        Pic X(05).

      2 WS-APP-TYP-9262        Pic X(02).


Linkage Section.
1 LS-NEW-RECORD            Pic X(34).
2 LS-TMSTMP1-4564        Pic X(26).

2 LS-TYP-LST-ACT-0044    Pic X(01).
2 LS-CAGE-CD-9250        Pic X(05).
2 LS-APP-TYP-9262        Pic X(02).

PROCEDURE DIVISION.

MOVE LS-APP-TYP-9262 TO WS-APP-TYP-9262.
MOVE LS-CAGE-CD-9250 TO WS-CAGE-CD-9250.

So on so forth.....

thanks

--- "Weatherly, Howard" <hweatherly@dlis.dla.mil>
wrote:
> I am working on a program that receives data through
> the linkage section,
> only problem is that the first field can not be
> referenced!
> Doing a prompted call and entering:
> '2001-05-05-06.45.20.402800A15992CD' in
> the parm field results in the field WS-TMSTMP1-4564
> producing the message
> "POINTER NOT SET FOR REFERENCED LOCATION".
>
> This is strange because I changed the code (see
> below) to move the linkage
> variable (LS-NEW-RECORD) to working storage
> (WS-NEW-RECORD). If I prompt
> (Interactive debugger) on LS-NEW-RECORD, the data
> appears as you would
> expect it. If however you look at WS-NEW-RECORD
> after the move, all fields
> except WS-TMSTMP1-4564 are available.
>
> Is there something about the format of timestamp
> data that is causing me
> grief here??
>
>
>
>    1 WS-NEW-RECORD.
>
>      2 WS-TMSTMP1-4564        Pic X(26).
>
>      2 WS-TYP-LST-ACT-0044    Pic X(01).
>
>        88 INSERT-PROCESS                    VALUE
> "A".
>        88 DELETE-PROCESS                    VALUE
> "D".
>      2 WS-CAGE-CD-9250        Pic X(05).
>
>      2 WS-APP-TYP-9262        Pic X(02).
>
>
>   Linkage Section.
>    1 LS-NEW-RECORD            Pic X(34).
>
> Procedure Division
>      Using LS-NEW-RECORD
>      .
>   0000-MAIN SECTION.
>    0000-Begin.
>
>      Move LS-NEW-RECORD to WS-NEW-RECORD
>
>
> Howard Weatherly
>
> (616)961-4324
>
> hweatherly@dlis.dla.mil
> howard.weatherly@ctg.com
>
> <<...OLE_Obj...>> <<...OLE_Obj...>>
> <<...OLE_Obj...>>
>
>
>
>
>
> <<Weatherly, Howard.vcf>>
>

> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/octet-stream
name=Weatherly, Howard.vcf

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Chandrasekhar G
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