Cobol replacing copy book

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. Trying to copy a copybook and replace the field prefixes when. A cobol copybook is a selection of code that defines data structures. I like the better than for the same reasons, but i would prefer, even more easier for me to type than. This clause can be used to replace all occurrences of a specified text by the new associated text. Trying to copy a copybook and replace the field prefixes when compiling using the following command.

The replace statement must be terminated by a period. It is necessary to construct the copybook with words. Copy statement in cobol is replaced at compile time, while other. For example, if you want to use a generic data copybook in. 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. This is an example of a cobol program that uses copy files with the replacing function. The cobol editor supports showing the contents of copybooks inline at the place. 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. From the cobol language reference manual link at the top of the page, secdtion 8. Due to this both the files will have same layout and we have to use the same copybook. Copy replacing mainframe tips, tricks and tutorials. Introduction to cobol declaring data in cobol basic. If a particular data structure is used in many programs, then instead of writing the same data structure again, we can use copybooks.

Replacing to copy source text from a library file and replace sections of it as required. Now include copybook abc into your source program as follows. Cobol tutorial studay material copy copybook, goto etc, mainframe cobol files. A cobol copybook is a file that contains cobol source code and is used to. Copy book replace, compilation is failing ibm mainframe. Safely transforming cobol copy statements with codeturn to. Replacement rules comment lines, inline comments, or blank lines that appear in the source text and in pseudotext1 are ignored for purposes of matching. 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. The period is part of the replace statement and does not otherwise affect the program. Replacing for a partial name by exec, the name is split to a second line and.

Copy statement with replacing in cobol stack overflow. We use the copy statement to include a copybook in a program. I tried using the copy book in cobol program along with replacing option as below. That can be achieved by using replacing option in copybook in cobol. A character or a sequence of contiguous characters between. Copy copybookname ofin library name replacing stringtobereplaced by replacingstring. Can copy replacing field prefixes be done in rm cobol. In general you may nest copybooks only if they do not contain the replacing phrase and do not cause recursion. Have you tried using symbolic constants instead of copy replacing. With the db2 precompiler, cobol replace statements and the.