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How can I auto Indent for Cobol and JCl using Notepad ++

Any one Please tell me how to autoindent my cobol and JCL codes. It will be easy for me to …

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Calling a Web Service from COBOL or CL

I'm using AS400 and I have been asked to call a web service from the green screen. How can thisbe …

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Convert Mainframe Binary to Ascii Using any Open Source Code or Tool

How can I convert a mainframe binary file (EBCDIC) having cobol copybook as record layout information to ASCII file by …

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How to publish messages directly from existing Mainframe application to Kafka topics?

We are planning to replace IBM MQ with Apache Kafka to implement pub-sub use-cases in future. Currently Mainframe(running Z/…

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Windows GUI Programming with OpenCOBOL?

I'm completely new to COBOL, but I'd like to take a look at the different options for GUI programming on …

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How do you grab a string in COBOL from a file when the position is unknown?

I'm new to the site as well as COBOL. I am trying to write a program that reads in an 80 …

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COBOL DB2 program

If I have 1 COBOL DB2 program which is calling 2 other COBOL DB2 sub programs, then how many DBRMs,Packages,Plans …

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Nested if statements in cobol

I am trying to use nested if statements in Cobol. As far as I can tell I am following the …

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How can I have Packed decimal and normal text in a single file?

I need to generate a fixed width file with few of the columns in packed decimal format and few of …

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Is there some way to access Sql server from z/OS mainframe and have the result in IBM 3270 terminal emulation?

Is there any way (possibly cheap) to access Microsoft Sql Server from z/OS mainframe (COBOL programs) and have the …

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