R: newbie: simple file output problem, debugging

Hello.
First of all: assign to database-thefile, i suppose.
Please code also:  file status is fs-thefile
After any i-o operation, please check the value of fs-thefile: if it is not 
'00' something wrong has happended.
Hear you soon.
Sincerely

        Domenico Finucci
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-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: jared [mailto:jhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Inviato: giovedì 15 luglio 2004 15.31
A: cobol400 list
Oggetto: [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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