Michael Simpson

I am running Xidel to check the validity of generated Swagger/schema files and Xidel is complaining with the message above for both the Swagger and the schema response files. I'll attach the schema response file plus the actual BAT file as well as the input file to XIDEL I'm running. Note that the schema response file formats with no errors using https://www.jsonschemavalidator.net/ and the actual swagger formats fine using https://editor.swagger.io/ Any suggestions as to what might be wrong would...

First of all, I have to say that the readme.txt that came with Xidel zip file was ....... extensive. So extensive that I couldn't find what I was actually after. I'm running Xidel under Windows, and would like to call it in a simple way so that it checks whether the JSON code in the file is valid or not. I tried the following "h:\xidel\xidel.exe" -s jpb172_swagger.json -e "$json" > xidel_output.json which worked fine inasmuch as xidel_output.json was "pretty formatted" However, when I deliberately...

Just checked, but if this ever fixed, whoever does so, should also include a slash (/) as a comment in position 7. This is also a comment (albeit with a throw to a new page in the old days of printing via a system printer)

Thanks for the quick reply Bruce. So there are 3 alternatives to he "problem" 1 Bug (?) in GNUCobol 2 Ditto in WinEdit (it has a z/OS emulation option) 3 Total misunderstaning on my part as to what to expect in the ouptut file. The good thing is I can use the GNU Cobol VB option to browes my output. Thanks again

First of all, a little background. I'm using GNUCobol and Winedit to compile and debug my cobol source code. My program creates a VB file. The file contains only the one record which is 91 bytes. The actual RDW is '005B0000'x (5B hex = 91 dec). If I use option GNU Cobol VB as the file structure option, the record is visible as expected. If, instead, I use Mainframe VB (RDW based) binary instead (which kinda seems logical) , I get an error message of Error Reading the File: java.io.IOException: Invalid...

Am trying to run COBXREF on a very small program and am getting the above error. Any suggestions. I'll attach the source code and the one copybook used.

My apologies. I must have been tired or something. Tested your variation and threw in a couple of other variations for good measure; no problem. Again, apologies.

I appended this to the "Help getting started" by mistake. (Is there a way for an ordinary user to move it from one forum to another - couldn't see anything obvious). Anyway ... Try the following. Define a field such as 01 aa-num pic s9(6) comp-3 value -991231. (note the negative value) Now in your procedure division, try display 'aa-num='aa-num I'm seeing +991231 That can't be right, can it, or ....... ?????