On 16 Jul 2015 08:04:03 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7 > DISPLAY ' YOU HAVE ACTIVATED STATISTICS WITH EXPLAIN' > - ' BUT HAVE NOT CREATED THE PLAN_TABLE.' > DISPLAY ' EXPLAIN HAS BEEN DEACTIVATED TO ALLOW THE' > - ' PROGRAM TO RUN TO COMPLETION.' > DISPLAY ' PLEASE CREATE THE PLAN_TABLE AND RESUBMIT' > - ' THE PROGRAM FOR EXPLAIN INFORMATION.' > >Charles >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Lizette Koehler >Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 7:24 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Not understanding COBOL diagnostic You don't need the continuation hyphen in column 7 because you are displaying two separate fields. If you wanted to display one field that was over the fixed COBOL reference format (there is now a second variable length format on many platforms) see the language reference format since I don't recall the rules for continuing literals even though I used to do it.
Clark Morris > >Due to text wrap, I cannot tell what the original line looked like. > >Could you post the original code above the compiler output? > >Do you have ending single quotes? > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
