Re: Understanding Error Messages

You are simply WRONG when you say,

 "Attention! The non-usual characters resulted from the COBOL >compilation

process on the mainframe and I did not created it."

Compilation NEVER changes the source code.  Somewhere you did something to

introduce the non-visible characters into the ISPF source code.

The compilation process *might* introduce non-visible characters into the 
LISTING - but not into the source code.

Any way, have you fixed the source code yet and does it compile?


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Bill Klein
 wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"SkippyPB" <swiegand@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 14 May 2008 01:04:30 -0700 (PDT), amir <ahsharif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>Dear friends,
>>I wrote my code on the ISPF-editor exactly and transfered to PC using
>>FTP.
>>
>>> P.S.  I assume that "360" was a typo and that you aren't really using
a
>>mainframe THAT old!!!
>>Our System is OS/390 installed on Parallel Enterprise Server 9672, as
>>I know.
>>
>>> How did you write the code?   If you wrote it on your PC, how did you
>>> get it to the mainframe?    I'm wondering if your problem might be an
>>> ASCII/EBCDIC confusion.   If you're in TSO/SPF look at one of the
>>> lines saying showing " " and say HEX ON, and see what is in that
>>> space.
>>  000001         ....   identification
>>division..............................................................................
>>44FFFFFF44444444401004448889A88888A899488A8A89940000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000044444444444444444444444444444444444
>>000000010000000000F0000094553969313965049592965B0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
>>The problem started exactly at 9th charachter after 000001.
>>It will be in the "A899488A", if we assume each two hex numbers as one
>>character.
>>What is your idea?
>>
>>Attention! The non-usual characters resulted from the COBOL
>>compilation process on the mainframe and I did not created it.
>>
>>Thanks,
>
> If you wrote the code in the ISPF editor, why not compile it from
> there on the mainframe?  Why are you FTPing to the PC?  Waste of time
> and you obviously don't know what you are doing going between the two
> platforms.
>
> Write the COBOL on the mainframe in the ISPF editor.  Compile that
> source on the mainframe.  Correct typos.  Repeat until desired results
> are achieved. K.I.S.S.
>
> Regards,
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