[open-cobol-list] Re: open-cobol-list digest, Vol 1 #183 - 2 msgs

[E. Narayanan]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for the info ! I found a decent tutorial on the
Copy verb at
http://www.csis.ul.ie/COBOL/Course/Copy.htm

If as you say there is no spec for copybook I assume
it then follows the cobol langauage spec. I got
numerous links to cobol langauge refences for DEC, IBM
etc. I tried to search for ANSI cobol standard but
couldnt get anything really useful. Would you know of
any spec on ANSI standard cobol from which I could
learn the language syntax and features ?

Thanks Again,
Ed

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> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:27:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "E. Narayanan" <address@hidden>
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> Subject: [open-cobol-list] Regarding Cobol Copybook
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> Hi,
> I am a java programmer. I am working on converting
> Cobol copybooks to other formats. I went through a
> couple of Cobol tutorials but could not find any
> reference to copybook in them.
> 
> - Is copybook a way of representing the Working
> Storage section in a file just like "include files"
> in
> C/C++ or is it more than that ? Or is it like a data
> format definition like an XSD ? 
> 
> - Is there any standard specification for copybook
> which I can reference. Searching on google only
> yielded examples of copybooks rather than the spec
> itself. 
> 
> Any links would be appreciated !
> 
> Thanks,
> Ed
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:07:00 +0100 (BST)
> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gary=20Cowell?=
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> Subject: Re: [open-cobol-list] Regarding Cobol
> Copybook
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>  --- "E. Narayanan" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> 
> > - Is there any standard specification for copybook
> > which I can reference. Searching on google only
> > yielded examples of copybooks rather than the spec
> > itself. 
> > 
> 
> 
> There's no spec for a copybook AFAIK. They're just
> fragments of source code, from any part of a cobol
> program, working storage, linkage section, procedure
> division or whatever.  They are included into the
> main
> body of the cobol program by use of the COPY verb.
> The
> copy verb may be used to replace one or more tokens
> in
> the copybook with something else.
> 
> e.g.  
> 
>          COPY FILE-UTIL REPLACING ==FILE1== BY
> MY-INPUT-FILE
> 
> so as to be able to write generic copybooks that can
> be included in many programs by way of replacing
> generic tokens with names specific to the program
> being copied into.
> 
> I don't know if this is enough for you, but it's all
> I
> can distill from memory about copybooks.
> 
> G
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