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by **dick scherrer** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:01 am

Hello,

This is a mainframe cobol forum - not a pc cobol forum.

Suggest you read the pc cobol manual for the ways to define the output to preserve trailing spaces. On unix and win-based systems it is more common to eliminate trailing spaces (at least with the environments i've worked in). . .

by **crazycobol** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:36 am

Robert Sample wrote:Local drive? Would this, by any chance, be a Micro Focus COBOL compile?

yes it is being compile by Micro Focus Cobol.

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ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.

SOURCE-COMPUTER. COMPAQ-PC.
OBJECT-COMPUTER. COMPAQ-PC.

INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
FILE-CONTROL.

SELECT MSTRFILE ASSIGN TO DISK WS-ADDRESS-MSTR
ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED
ACCESS MODE IS SEQUENTIAL
STATUS IS FILE-LOCK
LOCK MODE IS MANUAL
RECORD KEY IS MSSN
ALTERNATE RECORD KEY IS MLNAME WITH DUPLICATES.

SELECT DEPNFILE ASSIGN TO DISK WS-ADDRESS-DEPN
ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED
ACCESS MODE IS DYNAMIC
STATUS IS FILE-LOCK
LOCK MODE IS MANUAL
RECORD KEY IS NKEY
ALTERNATE RECORD KEY IS NLNAME WITH DUPLICATES.

SELECT DISKOUT ASSIGN TO DISK WS-ADDRESS-OUT-DSK
STATUS IS FILE-LOCK
ORGANIZATION LINE SEQUENTIAL.
DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.

COPY "N:\MSTRFILE.LIB".

COPY "N:\DEPNFILE.LIB".

FD DISKOUT
LABEL RECORDS ARE STANDARD.
01 DISKOUT-REC PIC X(600).

01 DISKREC-EE.
05 DISK-EE-GEN PIC X(03) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-TYPE PIC X(01) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-CONTROL PIC X(05) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-SUBSCRIBER-ID PIC X(30) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-SSN PIC 9(09).
05 FILLER PIC X(30) VALUE SPACE.
05 FILLER PIC X(30) VALUE SPACE.
05 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-LNAME PIC X(18) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-FNAME PIC X(12) VALUE SPACE.
05 FILLER PIC X(04) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-SEX PIC X(01) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-COVERAGE PIC X(01) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-BIRTH PIC 9(08).
05 DISK-EE-EFFECT PIC 9(08).
05 DISK-EE-TERM PIC 9(08).
05 FILLER PIC X(08) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-DIVISION PIC X(30) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-CROSS-REF-1 PIC X(16) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-ADD1 PIC X(30) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-ADD2 PIC X(30) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-CITY PIC X(19) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-STATE PIC X(02) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-ZIP PIC X(10) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-PHONE PIC X(10) VALUE SPACE.
05 DISK-EE-COUNTRY PIC X(03) VALUE SPACE.
05 FILLER PIC X(265) VALUE SPACES.

01 WS-ADDRESS-OUT-DSK.
05 FILLER PIC X(03) VALUE "N:\".
05 FILLER PIC X(06) VALUE "TESTIN".
05 FILLER PIC X(04) VALUE ".DAT".

It takes the Diskrec-ee and write it to diskout. If its not something simple then I will just have to include a field at the end so that spaces are filled in-between. Thank you all for the response so far. It is much appreciated.

by **Robert Sample** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:47 am

I know, from past experience with Micro Focus COBOL, that it has an option to allow trailing spaces to be removed -- or retained -- and it sounds like you may have the option specified incorrectly for what you want. I don't remember the details of the option, but I'm sure if you go through the documentation on compiler and run-time options you'll find it quickly enough.

by **uday@** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:00 pm

tell me the process?????

by **dick scherrer** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:28 pm

Hello and welcome to the forum,

If you intend to work in IT and participate in technical forums, you need to learn how "things are done". . . One needs to provide a meaningful topic/subject, post in the proper part of the forum (starting a new topic for a new question), and provide enough information that someone can help.

Your complete lack of specifics makes any meaningful answer impossible. . .

What "process"?

Does this in any way relate to the topic you posted a reply to?

by **Mohammed Umar** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:42 pm

Hi Robert,

I saw your comment which u made on wed Aug 11,2010.
"For example, if you FTP the file from the mainframe to your PC, then open it with a PC editor -- the spaces may not be there anymore since FTP has an option to remove trailing spaces from each record while transferring them. The spaces are still in the file on the mainframe, of course, but you cannot see them due to the way you transferred the file to your editor."

To obtain spaces in my local what has to be done. I am able to see spaces in mainframe but not in my local.

Thanks in advance
Mohammed umar

by **Robert Sample** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:53 pm

If the FTP is done from the mainframe side, use

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//SYSFTPD DD *
TRAILINGBLANKS FALSE
/*

as part of your JCL.

If the FTP is done from the PC, use this command BEFORE doing the GET:

quote site trailingblanks

by **Mohammed Umar** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:29 pm

Hi Robert,

Actually the file flow is like this Mainframe ---> FTP ---> Unix server.
In mainframe there are spaces but not in Unix server.

Is the problem is from mainframe to FTP? or FTP to Unix server?

As you said, i tried "quote site trailingblanks" before GET. It says "504 SITE unknown type".

thanks
umar

by **Robert Sample** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:48 pm

If the mainframe is initiating the FTP, the command would be

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quote locsite trailingblanks

Something else to consider is that Unix files are not record-oriented; the line termination character ends a text line. If you transfer this file to a mainframe file with RECFM=FB, and the line on the Unix server is shorter than the record length, it will be padded with spaces at the end to meet the fixed length record requirement. If this is the case, you either live with the trailing spaces or you change the mainframe file from RECFM=FB to RECFM=VB, adding 4 to the LRECL, so the records are picked up at the length they are on the Unix server.

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