Cobol replacing copy book

That can be achieved by using replacing option in copybook in cobol. The cobol editor supports showing the contents of copybooks inline at the place. Differences in how the db2 precompiler and coprocessor. The replace statement may be used anywhere a separator may occur. Replacement rules comment lines, inline comments, or blank lines that appear in the source text and in pseudotext1 are ignored for purposes of matching. But if we use the same copybook for multiple files in the same program,then there should be a way to differentiate both the files. We use the copy statement to include a copybook in a program. Copy statement is used in the workingstorage section. Copybook in cobol copybook replacing option mainframe. The receiving host application should interpret the dollar sign as the currency it.

A cobol copybook is a file that contains cobol source code and is used to. Now include copybook abc into your source program as follows. Trying to copy a copybook and replace the field prefixes when. Copy with replacing within copybook is it possible. It is necessary to construct the copybook with words.

I tried using the copy book in cobol program along with replacing option as below. Can copy replacing field prefixes be done in rm cobol. Copy statement in cobol is replaced at compile time, while other. A character or a sequence of contiguous characters between. Introduction to cobol declaring data in cobol basic. Replacing for a partial name by exec, the name is split to a second line and. Copy replacing mainframe tips, tricks and tutorials. With the db2 precompiler, cobol replace statements and the. Copy copybookname ofin library name replacing stringtobereplaced by replacingstring. In general you may nest copybooks only if they do not contain the replacing phrase and do not cause recursion.

Copy d replacing drm by 1728937 this site in readonly mode may 7. This clause can be used to replace all occurrences of a specified text by the new associated text. This is an example of a cobol program that uses copy files with the replacing function. The bottomline is that partial word replacement is not really supported but see below and wasnt in osvs cobol or any other ansi conforming compiler.

I have a copybook, in which i need to change the first three characters of the variables. Safely transforming cobol copy statements with codeturn to. When the replacing phrase is specified, the library text is copied, and each properly matched occurrence of operand1 within the library text is replaced by the associated operand2. Copy book replace, compilation is failing ibm mainframe. Search this forum for all terms copy replacing and you could find on the first page a response i made in july on a thread titled doubt in replacing in copy book with emphasis added. If a particular data structure is used in many programs, then instead of writing the same data structure again, we can use copybooks. The comparison operation that determines text replacement starts with the leftmost source text word that follows the replace statement, and with the first word of pseudotext1. When the replacing phrase is not specified, the library text is copied unchanged. A cobol copybook is a selection of code that defines data structures.

From the cobol language reference manual link at the top of the page, secdtion 8. Cobol tutorial studay material copy copybook, goto etc, mainframe cobol files. Trying to copy a copybook and replace the field prefixes when compiling using the following command. For example, if you want to use a generic data copybook in. Replacing to copy source text from a library file and replace sections of it as required. Due to this both the files will have same layout and we have to use the same copybook. Copy statement with replacing in cobol stack overflow. The period is part of the replace statement and does not otherwise affect the program. The expanded copybook view with replaced values is readonly which is. The replace statement must be terminated by a period. Have you tried using symbolic constants instead of copy replacing.