Hi,

I have a record layout for COBOL, and I would like some advice please,

in how OpenInsight interprets the data types as follows:

PIC X(20)

PIC 99 COMP

PIC 9(8) COMP

PIC 9(4) COMP

PIC X value CHAR(123)

What would be the equivalent data types in OI ? I remember PIC 9(8) was 4 bytes, PIC 9(4) was 2 bytes and PIC 99 was also 2 bytes (had to be on a word boundary or something like that).

Also, is there any method in OI to just move a complete block of data, like you could do in Cobol, for something like:

01 EMPLOYEE-DETAILS PIC X(100).

  03  NAME  PIC X(26).

      05 ADDRESS           PIC X(30).

      05 PHONE-NUMBER      PIC 9(8) COMP.

      05 ......

  03  .......

  03  ............

etc, etc

in Cobol, you could just do one move, to variable "EMPLOYEE-DETAILS",

then you could retrieve the individual entities. I think it is called a 'struct' function in OI, is that correct ? What data types in the struct would be equivalent to the Cobol data types ?

Regards,

Peter

With packed data imports there are some simple functions to remember:

BITAND(var) can be used to do bit masking

SEQ(var) can be used if you feel more comfortable working in base 10

CHAR(var) can accept a character value and can be concatenated

OCONV() and ICONV() accept 'HEX' as the second parameter

You're probably best off treating the data as strings and substrings and carving it up from there.

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Hi,

Okay, thanks.

Peter

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