# Generating COBOL

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-cobol/197277>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-Add-on-Products, Natural-Predict\
**Created:** [November 29, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-cobol/197277 "2017-11-29T15:04:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tibor\_Bednarik1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@Tibor\_Bednarik1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Tibor_Bednarik1)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-cobol/197277/1 "2017-11-29T15:04:51Z")

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How to include/eliminate field comment lines at Generate COBOL / PUNCH from Predict?

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**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-cobol/197277/2 "2017-11-30T01:20:48Z")

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set “Nr. of abstract lines” to 0 to eliminate and a 1 - 16 to include them.

[http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/natural/prd841/extobjects/gencob.htm#gencob](http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/natural/prd841/extobjects/gencob.htm#gencob)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-cobol/197277/3 "2021-04-02T15:39:43Z")

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