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Using current date in if statement

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Jessica M
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6/22/2016 5:39 PM

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.

Ragu Raghavan
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6/22/2016 6:02 PM
IF (EMP-TERM-DATE NOT = ZEROES)
AND (EMP-TERM-DATE < WS-SYSTEM-DATE-YMD)
GO TO 1040-
Jessica M
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6/22/2016 6:38 PM
Thank you so much. That appears to have worked.