Copy statement in Cobol

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

He's correct. All IDENTIFIERS are replaced. Not all STRINGS.

If you can't change the rapclodt copymember you will not be able to solve this case.
And if you do change it, you will need to add "replacing ==(X)== by ==RAPCLODT==" where there is no replacing clause.

Wim

[Phil.Howell]

MVS is another country
they do thing differently there

The compiler will tell you about any ambiguity in variable names

01 RAP-IN.
05 RAPCLODT-DB-AREA PIC S9(04) COMP.
05 RAPCLODT-DB-RAP PIC X(06).
05 RAPCLODT-ACCT-KEY.

01 RAP-OUT.
05 RAPCLODT-DB-AREA PIC S9(04) COMP.
05 RAPCLODT-DB-RAP PIC X(06).
05 RAPCLODT-ACCT-KEY.

MOVE RAPCLODT-ACCT-KEY TO .
will be flagged by the compiler as an error

MOVE RAPCLODT-ACCT-KEY OF RAP-IN
TO RAPCLODT-ACCT-KEY OF RAP-OUT.
will work

Phil

[Cobol Copy]

thanks phil.. ur reply was useful.

karthikeyan