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  • May 15, 2017
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I keep getting the following error:   error COBCH0008 : Unknown copybook library-data.cpy specified
C:\\Users\\John\\Desktop\\MFcourseware\\COBOLClass_Studio\\COBOLClass\\Projects\\18_02_Patron_Menu\\PatronEntry\\Form1.cbl (64,20-21) : error COBCH0014 : Invalid operand

I have put the copybook everywhere I can think of and pointed to it in Project, properties COPYBOOKS. what is the default path?   

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    Chris Glazier
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    I keep getting the following error:   error COBCH0008 : Unknown copybook library-data.cpy specified
    C:\\Users\\John\\Desktop\\MFcourseware\\COBOLClass_Studio\\COBOLClass\\Projects\\18_02_Patron_Menu\\PatronEntry\\Form1.cbl (64,20-21) : error COBCH0014 : Invalid operand

    I have put the copybook everywhere I can think of and pointed to it in Project, properties COPYBOOKS. what is the default path?   

    As long as the copybook referred to in the copy statement exists within a particular folder then adding the folder name to the Project properties-->Copybooks tab should fix this for you.

    The default location to pick up copybook files from would be the project folder itself so if you copy library-data.cpy to the following folder it should also pick it up:
    C:\\Users\\John\\Desktop\\MFcourseware\\COBOLClass_Studio\\COBOLClass\\Projects\\18_02_Patron_Menu\\PatronEntry
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    I keep getting the following error:   error COBCH0008 : Unknown copybook library-data.cpy specified
    C:\\Users\\John\\Desktop\\MFcourseware\\COBOLClass_Studio\\COBOLClass\\Projects\\18_02_Patron_Menu\\PatronEntry\\Form1.cbl (64,20-21) : error COBCH0014 : Invalid operand

    I have put the copybook everywhere I can think of and pointed to it in Project, properties COPYBOOKS. what is the default path?   

    Hi, Chris,
    Thanks for the help. I had the solution, but a copy book changed and once I corrected that things cleared up. The only problem now is the compiler doesn't recognize colons or one end-if. if zip(7:1) = " "
    move x to y.
    end-if
    ????
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    • Anonymous
    • May 16, 2017

    I keep getting the following error:   error COBCH0008 : Unknown copybook library-data.cpy specified
    C:\\Users\\John\\Desktop\\MFcourseware\\COBOLClass_Studio\\COBOLClass\\Projects\\18_02_Patron_Menu\\PatronEntry\\Form1.cbl (64,20-21) : error COBCH0014 : Invalid operand

    I have put the copybook everywhere I can think of and pointed to it in Project, properties COPYBOOKS. what is the default path?   

    Remove the period from the move statement just before the end-if.
    (Assuming that is the logic that you want)
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    I keep getting the following error:   error COBCH0008 : Unknown copybook library-data.cpy specified
    C:\\Users\\John\\Desktop\\MFcourseware\\COBOLClass_Studio\\COBOLClass\\Projects\\18_02_Patron_Menu\\PatronEntry\\Form1.cbl (64,20-21) : error COBCH0014 : Invalid operand

    I have put the copybook everywhere I can think of and pointed to it in Project, properties COPYBOOKS. what is the default path?   

    FYI, I fixed the Colon Problem. Came to find out there was an error (did not show in the error list) in the move statement that the colon was part of. Once I corrected the error in the line the colon error went away!

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