Gerhard

Hi Simon, I made the change to VARDATE PIC 9(08) and added the REDEFINE and the program now compiles successfully! Thank you VERY VERY much! Gerhard Simon Sobisch wrote: To add more explanation to the rule of the integer-argument - this is what the COBOL standard says (and as far as I know compilers in general follow this rule): Function arguments: Integer. An arithmetic expression that will always result in an integer value or an integer data item shall be specified. Integer operants: When the term...

Hi. I don't know if this is the correct place to post this question. I have a gnuCOBOL program with the function INTEGER-OF-DATE. It has been compiling and working fine. But we just move to a new server and it will not compile. We get an error FUNCTION 'INTEGER-OF-DATE' has invalid parameter. Thanks.

Thank you Simon. Yes, we're on OpenCOBOL v1.0. I like the workaround!

Thanks for the quick reply. We're in a very large development environment and have...

I am trying to determine the length of a field after trimming spaces (0x20). We are...

Please do!!

I want to thank everyone for your help in getting me started in GnuCOBOL. I was able...

Yes. I was finally able to get this to work. I am not the C developer for the subprogram....