Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi,

Can the index be moved to a display-able field? Is there any way to display the value in an index in COBOL?

What does the Enterprise COBOL Language Reference say that you can do with an index (assuming you mean the INDEXED BY field)? Identifying what you can't do should lead you to something you can do.

Is there any way to display the value in an index in COBOL?

You are asking a VERY fuzzy question here. When you want to display the value of an index, do you want to display
- the actual address (which is 8 hexadecimal digits)?
- the offset into the table (which would be a hexadecimal value starting at zero and going up by the table length)?
- the element number being referenced (i.e., a subscript value)?

There are good arguments to be made for each of these three possibilities.

Thanks. Robert, Third point of yours is what I'm after.