Please help.! I want to list my records on monitor

[BORANBURCIN]

hi,
I need to list my records for example;

Name surname
john smith
ian clerance
james hetfield

I want to list them on screen
but I dont want to use subfiles. Do I have any alternative solution about that. Thanks for all help

[tomholden]

Re: Please help.! I want to list my records on monitor

ummm...what's wrong with using a subfile? this is exactly what they were created for...

[FaStOnE]

Re: Please help.! I want to list my records on monitor

There is an SLNO for Display files. You turn it on and use a variable to tell it what line to start at for the output.

But, I'm with Tom here... why not use Subfiles?

[BORANBURCIN]

Re: Please help.! I want to list my records on monitor

we are a group team in our business. My friend made his program with subfiles. I want to try different solution for learning different things. Thats why I dont wanna use subfiles. You said SLNO files. DO you have any examples about it. How can I use SLNO in COBOL/400. THanks for all your help again.

[SteveL]

Re: Please help.! I want to list my records on monitor

The display file manual may be found on the IBM web site at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...zakc/rzakc.pdf.

Do a search on SLNO. That particular value is discussed on page 236 of the manual. I cannot provide you any sample code as I have never used it myself.

Steve

[vikramx]

Re: Please help.! I want to list my records on monitor

Umm i dont think the SLNO field will work for him considering its only used to positioning fields relative to a particular line number as indicated by the SLNO field. However, what is required here is to list a set of records which is what subfiles are used for.

Two other alternatives are:-
1.) Use DDM techniques (hope i didnt go wrong here since i am yet to try this one out) to dynamically create and list the fields using your program. However am not sure how to use this in Cobol but i guess it should be possible since we can use APIs.
2.) Declare 40 fields and try to make it look like a listing (I wouldnt really call this an alternative)

[BORANBURCIN]

Re: Please help.! I want to list my records on monitor

Actually I think that before to create fields dynamically. But I think I have to define fields in DDS before use it. So I cant create dynamically that I think. But it can be wrong. Can you tell me or anyone tell me how to create fields dynamically or you have any dds and cobol example codes about it.

[tomholden]

Re: Please help.! I want to list my records on monitor

to dynamically create screens you'll have to use DSM APIs...and they aren't for the faint of heart...
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...c/apis/dsm.htm