Lora,
While CICS is supported on the System i your use of a mainframe to develop CICS COBOL transactions would suggest that using a CICS support center directly may be more productive.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/support/ is probably a good starting point.
I've never used this support group and hope that this pointer helps rather than sends you off into the wrong direction,
Bruce
Lora <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And I should take a moment to apologize here. I signed up for this list
about a year ago, when I began learning COBOL. COBOL is my first
programming language. I program on a mainframe at work, and have no idea
what kind of system is referred to here. I just assumed COBOL was COBOL.
Since CICS is not supported, should I ask my CICS questions elsewhere, or
are there those out there who have programmed in CICS who wouldn't mind the
occasional stray question?
Thanks.
Lora
-----Original Message-----
From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harold Bearce
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:20 AM
To: COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400
Subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] CICS Problem
I gess I am showing my ignorance about the AS400. I never programmed on
one.
Bruce Vining wrote: > BTW. CICS is not run on the
AS400 computers.
That will be a surprise to a few people :-) You may want to look at product
5722-DFH: IBM CICSR Transaction Server for i5/OS
Bruce
Harold Bearce wrote:
I believe your logic is flawless. Check your punctuation carefully. BTW.
CICS is not run on the AS400 computers.
loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I'm a very new CICS programmer, and I'm running
into a problem.
I'm trying to compare two data items. Both are PIC X(09). Both will contain
numbers, though.
At one point in the CICS program, I have:
IF ACEMPNOI = WS-COMM-BEGIN
NEXT SENTENCE
ELSE
PERFORM 1100-START-BROWSE THRU 1100-EXIT.
The problem is, the Else branch always triggers when the program reaches
this statement, as though the two data values are different, even when I can
verify that they are not.
ACEMPNOI is the field that receives the account number from the CICS map.
WS-COMM-BEGIN is the field in the DFHCOMMAREA that contains the last
ACEMPNOI that was searched on. I save it to this COMMAREA data item whenever
the program executes a successful STARTBR.
What am I doing wrong here?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Lora
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