Pether Camitz

I don't need a separate element group-display-length, using display-length is OK if it sums correctly. I suspected the position element was too set in stone to be changed. The copybook I worked with when I saw the sum difference has about 500 fields in 8 levels, packed and signed fields to a storage-length > 1200. Having group lengths summed and being able to see start positions also for display is helpful as we are moving to a different receiver architecture.

Input: 06 GROUP. 08 PACKED-NUMBER PIC 9(10) USAGE IS COMPUTATIONAL-3. 08 FILLER PIC X(5). Output: <?xml version="1.0"?> <copybook dialect="Mainframe" filename="test_01.cbl"> <item display-length="11" position="1" name="GROUP" storage-length="11" level="06"> <item picture="9(10)" name="PACKED-NUMBER" level="08" numeric="true" display-length="10" storage-length="6" usage="computational-3" position="1"> <item picture="X(5)" name="FILLER" level="08" display-length="5" storage-length="5" position="7">...

display-length for group differs from sum of group parts