Re: Understanding Error Messages

On May 8, 12:46=A0am, amir <ahsha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 7, 11:54 am, "William M. Klein" <wmkl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> > Everyone has asked for you to show the LISTING with the problems under
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VS. =A0You
> > don't ever show it.
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> > My guess (and everyone else's) is that you have your code in the wrong
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olumns.
> > (Starting in column 1 might work on a PC - but will NEVER work on the
> > mainframe).
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> > If you would just do as you have been asked, you MIGHT get a useful
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y.
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> > If you don't know HOW to get the listing (with source code and error
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sages)
> > on MVS, then ask someone at the site that gave you JCL to compile
there.=

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> > However, as I say, I think your source code just starts in the wrong
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umn and
> > you have never answered any of us who have suggested that this is the
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oblem.
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> > --
> > Bill Klein
> > =A0wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com"amir" <ahsha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>news:9d89bc65-3acd-4417-ba91-7c5f990bcb0c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >I tried to run my first program under MVS as I said before.
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> > > I tried a sample code as I told before. I got some errors which I
> > > could not understand what the problem is?
> > > Anyway, I tried the code to compile under another compiler
(MSCobol).
> > > Compilation Result was successful. I tried different parts to change
> > > and everything done with no problem.
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> > > Can anyone help me to write my program under MVS and compile it? (I
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> > > using ISPF editor)
> > > Any help appreciated before.
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> > > (Special Thanks to DD about help to solve some problems.)
> > > Thanks,
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> I got the file through FTP. I could not cut and paste it. maybe some
> special characters, I don't know.
> If you specify what peace of code is necessary to help, I will type it
> again if needed.

Under Windows on a PC each line will be terminated by an ASCII CR and
LF character. If you ftped then tyhe file may wind up with whatever
ebcdic value the CR and LF converted to. As the errors indicated the
columns _after_ the actual characters  shown then it may  be that it
is complaining about these alien values.

Check your FTP manual so that the correct hex values are converted to,
and perhaps strip off the line terminators. This may be as simple as
specifying 'ascii' or 'ebcdic' rather than 'binary' (which it may
default to) in the FTP transfer.