Customer ID Name Order Date
......................................................................................Year Month Day
123456789 Johnny Smith
234567890 Mary Campbell
345678901 Ed Bilewicz
456789012 Tim Rahmen
567890123 Cheryl Graham
678901234 Robert Thomas McGill
So i have a .dat file that i am working on. I was provided with the ID's and the Names only and have managed to format the .out file like this (that didn't appear to be an issue). What i would like to know is how would i go about adding the Day, Month, and Year to this .out file while keeping them on the same lines as the names and ID's. I'm really new to Cobol so theres a lot of terms i don't understand yet. i tried writing variables in my inline-file (eg il-id), assigning the number with a move command then transfer out to a variable in my outline-file (ol-id) then write the outline-file but it didn't appear to work. though it's not out of the realm of possibility that i simply did it wrong. Any help with what im supposed to do would be very appreciated. and again, im new to this so the less complex terms the easier i might be able to understand. thanks so much.
Actually Data definition concept in COBOL look like flat file class associates to serialization or entity class associates to persistent mapping in modern programming language.
Here is a sample of Data Definition (in DATA DIVISION):
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
...
02 OL-ID.
05 CUSTOMER-ID PIC X(10).
05 CUSTOMER-NAME PIC X(20).
05 ORDER-DATE.
10 YEAR PIC X(4).
10 FILLER PIC X(1) VALUE '-'.
10 MONTH PIC X(2).
10 FILLER PIC X(1) VALUE '-'.
10 DAY PIC X(2).
Hope this helps.