Identification Division. Program-ID. "lobloc". Data Division. Working-Storage Section. copy "sqlenv.cbl". copy "sql.cbl". copy "sqlca.cbl". EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION END-EXEC. 1 01 userid pic x(8). 01 passwd. 49 passwd-length pic s9(4) comp-5 value 0. 49 passwd-name pic x(18). 01 empnum pic x(6). 01 di-begin-loc pic s9(9) comp-5. 01 di-end-loc pic s9(9) comp-5. 01 resume USAGE IS SQL TYPE IS CLOB-LOCATOR. 01 di-buffer USAGE IS SQL TYPE IS CLOB-LOCATOR. 01 lobind pic s9(4) comp-5. 01 buffer USAGE IS SQL TYPE IS CLOB(1K). EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION END-EXEC. 77 errloc pic x(80). Procedure Division. Main Section. display "Sample COBOL program: LOBLOC". * Get database connection information. display "Enter your user id (default none): " with no advancing. accept userid. if userid = spaces EXEC SQL CONNECT TO sample END-EXEC else display "Enter your password : " with no advancing accept passwd-name. * Passwords in a CONNECT statement must be entered in a VARCHAR * format with the length of the input string. inspect passwd-name tallying passwd-length for characters before initial " ". EXEC SQL CONNECT TO sample USER :userid USING :passwd END-EXEC. move "CONNECT TO" to errloc. call "checkerr" using SQLCA errloc. * Employee A10030 is not included in the following select, because * the lobeval program manipulates the record for A10030 so that it is * not compatible with lobloc EXEC SQL DECLARE c1 CURSOR FOR SELECT empno, resume FROM emp_resume WHERE resume_format = 'ascii' AND empno <> 'A00130' END-EXEC. EXEC SQL OPEN c1 END-EXEC. move "OPEN CURSOR" to errloc. call "checkerr" using SQLCA errloc. Move 0 to buffer-length. perform Fetch-Loop thru End-Fetch-Loop until SQLCODE not equal 0. * display contents of the buffer. display buffer-data(1:buffer-length). EXEC SQL FREE LOCATOR :resume, :di-buffer END-EXEC. 3 move "FREE LOCATOR" to errloc. call "checkerr" using SQLCA errloc. EXEC SQL CLOSE c1 END-EXEC. move "CLOSE CURSOR" to errloc. call "checkerr" using SQLCA errloc. EXEC SQL CONNECT RESET END-EXEC. move "CONNECT RESET" to errloc. call "checkerr" using SQLCA errloc. End-Main. go to End-Prog. Fetch-Loop Section. EXEC SQL FETCH c1 INTO :empnum, :resume :lobind 2 END-EXEC. if SQLCODE not equal 0 go to End-Fetch-Loop. * check to see if the host variable indicator returns NULL. if lobind less than 0 go to NULL-lob-indicated. * Value exists. Evaluate the LOB locator. * Locate the beginning of "Department Information" section. EXEC SQL VALUES (POSSTR(:resume, 'Department Information')) INTO :di-begin-loc END-EXEC. move "VALUES1" to errloc. call "checkerr" using SQLCA errloc. * Locate the beginning of "Education" section (end of Dept.Info) EXEC SQL VALUES (POSSTR(:resume, 'Education')) INTO :di-end-loc END-EXEC. move "VALUES2" to errloc. call "checkerr" using SQLCA errloc. subtract di-begin-loc from di-end-loc. * Obtain ONLY the "Department Information" section by using SUBSTR EXEC SQL VALUES (SUBSTR(:resume, :di-begin-loc, :di-end-loc)) INTO :di-buffer END-EXEC. move "VALUES3" to errloc. call "checkerr" using SQLCA errloc. * Append the "Department Information" section to the :buffer var EXEC SQL VALUES (:buffer || :di-buffer) INTO :buffer END-EXEC. move "VALUES4" to errloc. call "checkerr" using SQLCA errloc. go to End-Fetch-Loop. NULL-lob-indicated. display "NULL LOB indicated". End-Fetch-Loop. exit. End-Prog. stop run.