Importing AccuCobol FD's

ebailey · Post by **ebailey** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:11 am

What is the trick to importing AccuCobol FD's? I am getting the following msg:
Convert failed Error on line 3 parse error at token:6

I've tried several different options; Code Page = to default and UTF-16(the online help says to use UTF-8 but it is not available). There are no sequence numbers to strip, and I've tried all the various file formats.

I'm FTP'ing the FD using FTP explorer. Have modified a copy of the file to omit the modification comments.

I really don't want to type all my FD's in-

Thanks!
Eleesa

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 4:08 pm

Looks like it came across something on line 3 that it couldn't handle. Could you post the first few lines of your definition file?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:19 pm

Have you specified the starting character column for 01 items correctly?
If not, and line 3 is your first 01 level item, this could generate this error.

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:37 pm

I had a similar problem with some files recently. I had to remove all comments from the code book, DataStage just couldn't recognise the * character as being a comment, and I had to create a 01 entry at the start of the book as it started at 07.

A missing 01 should give the error "File contains no table definition (01 level is not found)..."

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:30 pm

When I was young (

) and the IBM 360/20 was new (

) the A margin was at column 8 and the B margin was at column 12.
That's it. No arguments.
<gruff>
(Should be more of it. Bring back the rope!)

</gruff>