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use of display-1

Postby halfrida » Mon Jun 07, 2010 12:39 pm

What is the use of display-1 and display-2? Is it used in IBM cobol? If not, what is its equivalent function in IBM cobol?
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Re: use of display-1

Postby Robert Sample » Mon Jun 07, 2010 2:55 pm

Neither is used in any version of mainframe COBOL that I'm aware of. Before we could tell you any equivalent function, you would have to tell us what they do.
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Re: use of display-1

Postby halfrida » Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:51 pm

i came across it in VS cobol. it is for displaying string data in double byte characters..am not sure about the detailed function..i have searched a lot about it..i want to know about its detailed usage.
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Re: use of display-1

Postby Robert Sample » Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:14 pm

Enterprise COBOL supports use of USAGE DISPLAY-1 for DBCS data. You can find plenty about DBCS in the COBOL manuals or by using Google.
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