What does the INITIALIZE verb do?

Answer Posted / dinesh kumar

Initailize verb initiallizes the data items.

Alphabetic, Alphanumeric fields & alphanumeric edited items
are set to SPACES.

Numeric, Numeric edited items set to ZERO.

FILLER , OCCURS DEPENDING ON items left untouched.

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