I have Ported COBOL from IBM several times and any time I had a problem
I wrote a procedure to replace the incompatible feature.

for example you can change the "REPORT" statement with

call 'your_report' using ....

I hope this helps.

Michael


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Subject: Re[2]: Cobol Report Writer?
Author:  Non-HP-phchristidis ([log in to unmask]) at hp-boise,uugw2
Date:    3/25/98 11:15 AM


I'm really asking this question in behalf of a programmer that is not a
subscriber to this list.  I only know what he told me and that is that they
are considering 'porting' some software from VMS COBOL to HP COBOL and they
ran into problems with the Report Writer portion.

Apparently with the RW option one can have 'RD' record buffers, similar to
'FD' for file buffers, and there exists the 'verb' or 'section' REPORT that
facilitates the generation of reports using titles, paging, spacing, etc...
information that were defined in the 'RD' specifications.

The confusion arose when the errors reported by the compiler seemed to
indicate that the 'REPORT' keyword was recognized as valid but perhaps used
in the wrong context.

The responses that I've received indicate that said feature is *not*
available on HP COBOL.

Paul
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Subject: Re: Cobol Report Writer?
Author:  [log in to unmask] at CCGATE
Date:    03/25/98 13:09


Can you give us an example of what you are trying to do?

Michael