Re: COBOL 101 Question

To the best of my knowledge, no. You can initialize
a higher level entry without doing each element, but
you cannot initialize the table and have it work
correctly for all lower data elements - unless they
are all characters.

In this case, initializing My-Table will set the whole
table area to spaces...not good ;-)

01 My-Table occurs 10 times.
05 Element-01 pic x(01.
05 Element-02 pic s9(03) comp-3.

However, looping thru this table an initializing
My-Entry should work correctly :)

01 My-Table occurs 10 times.
05 My-Entry.
10 Element-01 pic x(01.
10 Element-02 pic s9(03) comp-3.

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Munday
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:55 PM
To: COBOL
Subject: [COBOL400-L] COBOL 101 Question

I have an elementary question about initializing a table.
Because of staff turnover, there are no experienced
programmers here who can answer this.

I have a code example which sets a counter and initializes
each table element until all have been initialized. Is it
possible just to issue an initialize on the whole table? We
do that in RPG.

Thanks,



Robert Munday
Munday Software Consultants
Montgomery, AL
on assignment in Columbia, SC
soon to be somewhere else...


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