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INREC control statement use in SORT

The INREC control statements allow users to reformat an input record before processing. The user can  Define the parts of…

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Find Duration – Add – Subtract – MOD Duration using COBOL

The FIND DURATION function is used to calculate duration between: Two dates A date and a timestamp Two times A…

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File Handling Verbs in COBOL Programs

The collection of records belonging to the same entity is known as File. These records are stored permanently. File handling helps to organize…

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FILE ALLOCATION – COBOL File Handling

FILE ALLOCATION is a key concept in COBOL programming. A file is a collection of data related to a set…

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COBOL File Error Handling and Status Code

Any I-O operations on a file, there are chances that it may fail. We need to have COBOL FIle Error…

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ROUNDED and ON SIZE ERROR use in COBOL

The ROUNDED option used to round the fraction result of the compute statement exceeds the length of the target data…

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GDG – Generation Data Groups operations in JCL

GDG Stands for ‘Generation data group’ & is used to catalog a group of datasets that have common and similar…

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COUNT Function: Count number of records in a file

COUNT function can be used to print messages containing the count of records in a data set. It can also…

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ACCEPT n records with OUTFIL SORT utility

ACCEPT parameter is an OUTFIL option that limit the number of input records accepted for OUTFIL processing. A record is…

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IFTRAIL – Trailer record update using SORT

IFTRAIL parameter is used to update count and total values in an existing trailer (last) record to reflect the actual…

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