Usage of cobol program in QTP

[Guy Werry]

Pandurang,
 
What version and platform are you working on????  
I've never called Cobol directly from Qtp, but I have done the sort of
thing where I do processing in Qtp to create a subfile (on Unix, where
the data and definitions are in separate files), then have a Cobol
program read the data portion of the subfile, do more processing and
write the results into another file.  I then take that file that's
output from the Cobol and create a subfile definition for it in Qtp,
then rename the Cobol output file to be the subfile.
 
Like this:
 
qtp
> access .....
bunch of qtp processing
> subfile S1 keep include ....
>go
>exit
 
This gives me the files:

*	
	S1.sf (the data portion)
*	
	S1.sfd (the definition)

Cobol program that reads S1.sf and does a bunch of really weird
procesing, with output file S2.
This gives me the file:

*	
	S2

qtp
> access ....
> set input limit 1
> set process limit 1
> use temporary data items / file items to get the data items that I
require to match the data in S2 from above
> subfile S2 keep include ... (this MUST match the Cobol program's
definition of S2 EXACTLY)
> go 
> exit
 
This gives me the files:

*	S2.sf, the data portion of the subfile, which is EMPTY (0
records)
*	S2.sfd, the definition portion of the subfile

Then, I simply rename S2 (output from Cobol file) as S2.sf
I now have a permanent subfile named S2 that I can read in Powerhouse.
 
Hope that helps,
Guy L. Werry
Senior Systems Analyst
Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited. 


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Subject: Usage of cobol program in QTP



Hello All, 


Any one could suggest how to make use of cobol program in  QTP. 

Thanks & Regards
Pandurang Rajpurohit,

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