Write a COBOL program called lab4a.cob
to detect input errors and write findings to an output error report.
The name of the input file to use is ~sgomori/students/cis314/lab4ain.dat.
Copy this file to your own directory for use in writing the COBOL program. The
format for this input file is the same as that of the input file for lab3c.
Notice that the input format is not given.
A problem you need to solve for here is how to define the input data item (in
the input file record description) to correctly check for invalid data.
lab4a.cob should catch the following data
entry errors:
Be sure to include at least one class
test, one sign test and one relation test.
Create an output error report file named lab4aout.dat.
This file should contain an error message along with the offending input record
for each error found in the file. Should you find two errors in one record,
output two error messages but the data record only once. Also, count the total
number of records that have errors in them as well as the total number of
errors detected (since you can have more than 1 error per record). Output these
two pieces of information at the end of your output error file. Choose how you
would like to output your information. Here is a sample:
Non-numeric employee number found in the following input record: ... output the input record exactly how it occurs in the input file (in one piece) a blank line or delimiter of some kind to denote different records Non-numeric number of hours in the following input record: Negative hourly wage owed in the following input record: ... output the input record exactly how it occurs in the input file (in one piece) etc. Total number of invalid records: 9,999 Total number of invalid input data items: 9,999
Write a COBOL program named lab4b.cob to
accomplish the following.
Note: This will be similar to lab3c.cob,
so you should use that as a starting point. If you were not able to complete
lab3c.cob properly please see your grader/instructor for help in making your
program correct before continuing on with this problem.
PROBLEM
Many hospitals are a part of the United Healthcare
of Ohio (UHOH) Insurance system. Each hospital accepting UHOH Insurance has a
unique numeric identification number. UHOH Insurance would like a report to
determine the total and average amount of unpaid bills still owed for each
hospital as well as the grand total and average amount of unpaid bills for
all of the unpaid bills in the UHOH Insurance system.
INPUT
The input file ~sgomori/students/cis314/lab4bin.dat
has been created for you and has the following specifications for each billing
recipient. You do not know how many records are in the input file or how many
records each hospital has. However, you do know that the input file is sorted
by hospital number. You may assume that this file has no invalid data.
OUTPUT
The report file will be named lab4bout.dat.
The output should look basically like the following:
Each Page Header should look something like this:
Date: MM/DD/YYYY NAME OF INSURANCE SYSTEM Page 999
Time: HH:MM:SS
At the start of each set of hospital data you are
to print the hospital name and number, as is shown below.
HOSPITAL NAME: name of hospitalHOSPITAL NUMBER: unique hospital id number
At the top of each page, after the page header, you
will print the two lines of column headings, as well as the lines for hospital
name and number. You should have something like this:
Patient Patient Date of Amount
Number Name Address Service Owed