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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=406354920-12122005>The
reason I'm wanting to use Cobol is for performance. I will typically be
processing 2 million to 9 million records.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> David Morrison - Corporate
[mailto:dmorrison@mcbrideelectric.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 12, 2005
3:36 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Tim Cummings; Cognos Powerhouse List
(E-mail)<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: CHECKSUM function in
PowerHouse<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Tim,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Your COBOL program
could call a simple QUICK or QTP program that calculates the CHECKSUM of a
passed-in value. If you have a lot of data, this would be a slow
performer, though, as you'd be loading the PH program once per record. If
that were a problem, you'd want to look at processing the flat file directly, or
a file created from it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Cordially,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">David
Morrison<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">McBride
Electric<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
powerh-l-bounces+dmorrison=mcbrideelectric.com@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+dmorrison=mcbrideelectric.com@lists.sowder.com]
<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Tim
Cummings<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, December
12, 2005 12:17 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Cognos
Powerhouse List (E-mail)<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> CHECKSUM function in
PowerHouse</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Is the formula for the CHECKSUM
function published anywhere?</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I want to create a Cobol program to
do some work on a dataset. The dataset has a field that was populated in a
QTP program that contains the results of a CHECKSUM. I want the Cobol
program to read some source data from a flat file, calculate a checksum for the
same fields and compare the results to the checksum stored in the dataset.
If they are different, It will trigger a series of updates to happen in the
Cobol program.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If the formula is not published, is
there a way to call the PH function?</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Timothy J Cummings</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Milford, Ohio
45150</SPAN></FONT> <BR><U><FONT color=blue><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><<A
href="mailto:Tim.Cummings@Frequencymarketing.Com">mailto:Tim.Cummings@Frequencymarketing.Com</A>></SPAN></FONT></U>
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