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Cobol Field expansion can be as easy as 1-2-3 and provide an audit trace on every action accomplished.

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Cobol Field Expansion

COBOL Field Expansion can be as easy as 1 - 2 - 3 along with a complete audit trail of everything which was accomplished! 

  1. You have selected the field you wish to expand. We can help you locate all other related fields which should be found with our accurate Tracing Report, based on our 25 Years of providing COBOL Analysis and Tracing.   Click here to see a view of our easy to follow Tracing Report. 

  2. Sometimes, one lone field sits unfound by our Tracing Reports, because it has its own tracing path and is not involved in the previous tracing. A simple FIND in an editor on PICTURE size or part of a field may miss this field. Our Data Mining Language designed for COBOL has a much greater possibility of precisely locating this field on the first try.   Click here to see a view of our easy to follow Data Mining for COBOL. 

  3. After providing the old and new PICTURE size and rules for expanding literals, we generate a complete set of easy to read Code Change records for verification and then for use to modify your source code. Click here to see a sample of our easy to read Code Change records.

  4. A new Tracing and Analysis feature required by 'COBOL Field Expansion' has been added to DCD III, making our package even more valuable to your developers in completing their ongoing program maintenance. The tracing searches through infinite levels as necessary. Every Field that needs to be located, is, then appropriately listed in the descriptive report. The reasons why the Fields are traced and chosen appear in the narrative report.  All of the REDEFINES, that is, all the Overlapping Fields, are clearly shown at every level.

  5. And in the same way, sometimes there are unrelated Fields in your system that need to be changed along with your targeted Field Expansion. Our program locates even those elusive, seemingly unrelated Fields.  Also, added onto our new Tracing and Analysis feature, we have developed a way of finding Fields in our Data Mining facility using our special SELECT language. The technician can find fields using just small pieces of information such as the number of decimal positions, type usage, and by searching using wild strings to find one range of characters after a different range of characters was found earlier in the name.

  

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