Question { 6800 }

Hi Folks,
In the Map, one field is having attribute FSET. I want to
FSET OFF of that field through program. Can any body let me
know the process?

Thanks
Praveen

Answer

FRSET will reset the field , when you did it will not
logically passed to ur program from map./screen.actually it
will reset the MDT flag in ur field.

becarefull before doing it or use dfhbmca copybook
attribute variables to dynamically sets the fields

Question { CGI, 13848 }

Explain the exact situation, when to use CALL, XCTL and LINK?

Answer

in additon to the above answers, VSCOBOLII allows to make
CALL stmt, so you can do this in ur earlier versions

if you routine is imbedded to ur main program, then that
case CALL is more effective.

if the modification are higher ,sub program size is higher
go for LINK, once issue link that u the control to one
level down to ur calling program. and ur calling pgm will
expect a return,

Xctl is more convienent way calling a progam in CIcs,.

Question { TCS, 8810 }

I have 5 steps in my job. say s1, s2, s3, s4, s5
//s1 exec .............

//s2 exec ............

//s3 exec ..........

//s4 exec ........

//s5 exec ...............

my question is i want to exeute only s2 and s4 steps...
please advice me how to do this:

Answer

the best way to acheive this
restart = step2 and code in step 3 cond as 0,eq
and after step 4 add null stmt

Question { 28697 }

What is DFHAID? what is its use?

Answer

Attention key identifier , in order to identify the attend
key in screen in your program, that means if the user
pressess the attention key in screen per say Enter, using
AID field you can reconginze and alter ur code execution
based on the aid field.

Question { 13746 }

How to open and see copy book ?

Answer

in our shop we are using Insync , From main menu type Ins;1
and enter provide the filename , in addition you need enable
copy book layout option as cob or Y and provide the copy
book of giving pds name also , so that we can map the file
with that copy book to view it in readable format.