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Douglas Wilder
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| Bad data in fields is no problem, if the practice that I was taught almost 30 years ago is followed. The first program in a system that uses data from outside the system must make sure no bad data get into the system. Check the program specs for this first program and it should tell you for each field what values are ok and what to do with data that is not good. To find the bad data look at the error reports and/or error files coming out of this program. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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How to identify wrong data . . .
This is an interview question from Perot Systems?
what logic we have to code if we use cobol pgm since file contains so many columns. |
One answer is that until all of the validation rules for every field have been defined, it cannot be done.
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| Again - this is the most ridiculous thread I've seen here. |
Not all of us can can say this 
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| I gave a gag gift of a . . . . that simply said "DO IT". |
Once bought 25 blank "keys", labeled them with "DWIM", and stuck them with 2-sided tape on some prominent place on selected user's keyboards. (DWIM - Do What I Meant).
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skkp2006
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Have counters defined in your program and everytime you process a record successfully increment that and display them in case of a abend will be a good start......
And as enrico-sorichetti said
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| wrong data is any data which does not abide/respect the application specifications |
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Rahul_kumar
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I thk we can use display statements in the program to find the statement for which the program abends.
or there is another method to identify the SOC7 error using OFFSET address but i don't know the same.Can anyone pls help. |
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Douglas Wilder
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| Years ago I supported a system, that when it abended, it would "snap dump", then the program would backout the changes for the current bad record, and write the bad record to an error file, then go on with the next record. I am not sure how they did that. A good edit program would have make that almost unneeded. But it is an interesting idea. |
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