I am hoping someone can help me with a COBOL statement. I haven't touched cobol in quite a while and my co-worker that usually works with our custom cobol is out of the office for a bit.
I have a custom program that was excluding any employee with a term date in a file. They now want to change it to include anyone termed that day.
The current statement is:
IF (EMP-TERM-DATE > "00000000") GO TO 1040-NEXT-EMPLOYEE.
How do I change this to "GO TO 1040-NEXT-EMPLOYEE" when "EMP-TERM-DATE" is before the current date?
I would greatly appreciate any assistance with this.