RE: A little shudder here

["Ray Harris" <rharris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Initialize RecLevel" where RecLevel is the record level definition in the
DDS.  Do this immediately after opening.  This will put blanks in all alpha
fields and zeroes in all numeric fields.  You do the same initialize when
you are preparing to load fields into a new record.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobol400-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:cobol400-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:00 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
>
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