[COBOL400-L] RE: I'm stumped - working storage tables indexed by

[rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Also, how do you reset it to the first element in the table?

In the program I'm working on, (which has worked forever) does the
following types of things.

       01  FILLER.
           02  FILLER  OCCURS 200 INDEXED BY INDEX04.
             03  TBL04-INGREDIENT  PIC 9(06) COMP
                                    VALUE 0.
             03  TBL04-PRICE       PIC 9(02)V9(04) COMP
                                    VALUE 0.
             03  TBL04-MEASURE     PIC X(10).
             03  TBL04-DESCRIPTION PIC X(30).
           02  INDEX-TBL04        PIC 9(03) COMP.
           02  INDEX-TBL04-LO     PIC 9(03) COMP VALUE 001.

........... load table via INDEX04,

then save last index in INDEX-TBL04:

       SET INDEX-TBL04 TO INDEX04.

then later,

       SET INDEX04 TO INDEX-TBL04

then later,

      SET INDEX04 TO INDEX-TBL04-LO

still later,

      IF INDEX04 NOT EQUAL INDEX-TBL04
            SET INDEX-TBL04-LO TO INDEX04

later still,

           MOVE 1 TO INDEX-TBL04-LO.

in other words, saving, setting, searching, re-setting, between index
fields and simple 3 digit packed fields.

My problem is that at some point in the program, it gets a bad index, and
moves something into my table at the wrong starting position -
TBL04-INGREDIENT becomes X'0023F0F' -

I've stepped through it in debug, but no matter where or how I set the
breakpoint, i can't seem to catch it where it hoses the index. - it's
reading through about a hundred thousand records, and i've stopped it where
I think it's supposed to be changing the fields, but I keep missing.

any further guidance would be appreciated.





---------original message----------------
Thanks Terry,

to move the saved index back to the original, do I move or set?

Rick,

---------original message------------
You can just define it like this:

 05  GROUP-ITEM-LOC USAGE IS INDEX.

You can now target a field defined this way in your set statement.

Terry Grider

-----Original Message-----
From: rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:04 PM
To: cobol400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [COBOL400-L] I'm stumped - working storage tables indexed by


what type and size is an table index field?

to save an index field, how what type and size of field should the result
of a 'SET' verb be?

can you directly compare the index field to the save field? - IF
INDEX-FIELD = SAVE-INDEX-FIELD

I'm having a problem with a program that's worked forever, until now - my
index field is getting hammered, making a move to a table element that
isn't in the bounds of the field.

Thanks,

Rick