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2010-02-03 Compiler Interpretation of Pic X(1):

If you consult your language reference manual you will find: 1) Either ['] apostrophe or ["] quotation mark may be used to begin and end a character literal. 2) If you put two of the characters together

2010-02-03 USAGE POINTER:

Usage POINTER is used to pass either the address of a ROUTINE you want to CALL or the address of a data element you want to use to address some data outside the actual data list. You can [SET pwohnumb-v01-vo

2010-02-03 CAPS to Mixed Case:

First I don't follow what you are asking about %26. Please clarify. Second you can convert the entire string to lower and then parse the string for the 1st letter of a word and do an 'UPPER' function

2010-01-25 XML Generation in COBOL with nested tables of varying sizes:

From the 4.1 programming guide this is how to code your program: Working-storage section. 01 numItems pic 99 global. <<===== 01 purchaseOrder global. 05 orderDate pic x(10). 05 shipTo. 10 country

2010-01-12 VSAM File Access:

You can multiple define a VSAM file. What you want to do, I have done. You can not have both files open at the same time. If you open a file as DYNAMIC you have the option of random via a 'READ file-name