What is the difference between an informat and a format.
Name three informats or formats.
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Answer Posted / sudheer
farmat is the option which is used to print the data in the
particular way, if you declare the format option in the
data set block it will stored permanenetly, were as if you
put the format in the procedure block, it will temparary
for the printing purpose.
informat is the option which is used to read the data from
the extral file or data lines(cards0, internal data.
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