Difference between COPY and ++INCLUDE stmts

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Difference between COPY and ++INCLUDE stmts

Postby onkarnath » Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:10 pm

what is the difference between in using COPY and ++INCLUDE stmts in a cobol pgms?
and also give the difference b/w ++include and include++
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Re: Difference between COPY and ++INCLUDE stmts

Postby shriram_j » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:48 pm

To my experience i came to know that copy will expand the member at the time of compilation, and include only at the time of execution. And the other thing i have no idea.

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Re: Difference between COPY and ++INCLUDE stmts

Postby MrSpock » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:57 am

COPY is opened by COBOL compiler.
++INCLUDE is a Panvalet command to include data into a source library.
INCLUDE is opened by DB2 pre-processor.
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