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Status Future consideration
Workspace Db2
Created by Guest
Created on May 18, 2022

Reference to undeclared column should result in RC08, instead of RC04

In the COBOL program an INCLUDE statement is used where a DCLGEN is declared. The copybook ZSTBF02 is attached.

When the COBOL source contains an SQL statement where a column is used which is not declared in the DCLGEN, a warning is issued in the listing. I copied a piece of the listing here:

000375 EXEC SQL

==000375==> IGYPS0209-W DSNH206I DSNHANAL LINE 375 COL 8 STATEMENT REFERENCES COLUMN

"ZSTBF02""REK_IBANS", WHICH IS NOT DECLARED IN THE SPECIFIED TABLE(S)

000376 SELECT REK_NR ,

000377 REK_IBANS ,

000378 PDCT_ID


It concerns the REK_IBANS field, where in the DCLGEN the column REK_IBAN is declared. When deploying the program after the compilation a bind will result in a failure.

We would like to see that the undeclared column name results in a RC08.


Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool