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Robert Collins

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I currently work for Micro Focus and am directly involved in migrations from the IBM z/OS mainframe to the distributed platforms. I'm familiar with CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, SQL Server, Windows, Visual Studio, VB.Net, etc.

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Publications

http://itsacobolworld.blogspot.com

Education/Credentials

Bachelor of Science in CIS from DeVry Institute

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Recent Reviews from Users

User	Date	K	C	P	Comments
Anthony	05/25/12	10	10	10
nikhila	03/01/12	10	10	10	Thanks robert
jemz	02/03/12	10	10	10	Very fast to reply and very helpful .....
jemz	01/25/12	10	10	10	His good..and very quick in response
Ron	12/05/11	10	10	10

Recent Answers from Robert Collins

2012-04-23 Need a help for me:

NagarajanM, JCL and COBOL are two different things. I am assuming you are asking specifically about COBOL and the structure of a program. Here is a good description of the sections / divisions of

2012-02-29 FLAGS IN COBOL:

I'm assuming you are referring to what is also known as an 88 level switch. A flag is useful when you want to give a name to a condition that you wish to refer to in your code. The biggest reason for

2012-01-20 Cobol code issues:

Shravani, I'm not going to write the program for you because this seems like a homework question to me. And writing it for you wouldn't help you much *smile*. What I suggest you do is step back

2011-11-09 NEED HELP BADLY:

This looks like homework :) I'll point you in the right direction though... The comment appears to point to two different switch settings. One switch, INVALID-RECORD, should be set to 'Y' when

2011-10-30 need your help in ispf.:

You need to add the jobcard "typerun=scan" to jcl to run the scan instead of submitting the job. That will show you any illegal keywords or invalid parenthesis type errors. To find an error that has

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