Re: COMP-1, COMP-2 resoultion on UNIX (using microfocus)

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:49:01 -0700, kimi wrote:

> HI ppl,
>            i have migrated the data on mainframe to SOLARIS UNIX. COMP-1
>            and COMP-2 is read as junk when the application is
> run on this data.
>            But COMP and COMP-3 data are read fine.
> 
>            I have Microfocus Server Express 4.0 SP2 installed in my
> UNIX system.
>            I believe This issue has something to do with the way the
> operaring system interprets it.
>            Is there a way in which i can read this COMP-1 and COMP-2
> data successfully??
>            Pls let me know..
> Thanks and regards,
> kimi

You should have seen this coming. Internal data formatting is platform 
dependent.  The easy way is to go back to the mainframe and write a little

file conversion program that puts all the comp-1 and comp-2 fields in 
display format. Then at the other end you can manipulate the data fields 
to get them back into some sort of comp-x format. 

The hard way is to dip into assembly or perhaps C and do the same task on 
the new platform. 

What is the nature of the comp-1 and comp-2 fields? Are you doing some 
sort of statistical manipulation in COBOL? I heard Grace Hopper herself 
say that one should not use COBOL for a FORTRAN task and vice versa. 


-- 
John Culleton