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saturn_cemk

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: Pointer in Cobol copybook

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Hi all,

I need to import a COBOL copybook to MB toolkit in order to build a message set. The copybook contains the 'POINTER' datatype which I think is not supported by the importer. I checked it out here (Notes section, point 4) :

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wbihelp/v6rxmx/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.etools.mft.fp8.doc/ad06900_.htm

So what other option do I have to import this ? Can I change the POINTER type to PIC X(4) as a pointer data item is a 4-byte elementary item.

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Thank you.

Bill.Matthews

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Pointer in Cobol copybook

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saturn_cemk wrote:

Since a POINTER datatype contains a memory address - you may want to treat it as a binary value - and in any case, don't attempt to do anything with it.
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