Answer / ravi

INDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. PGM1.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
SOURCE-COMPUTER. IBM
OBJECT-COMPUTER. IBM
INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
FILE CONTROL.
SELECT INPUT-VB-FILE ASSIGN TO DISK.
DATA DIVISION.
FILE-SECTION.
FD INPUT-VB-FILE
01 INPUT-VB-FILE
RECORDING MODE IS V
RECORD CONTAINS 1000 CHARACTERS <---This should be the max
size of the record in whole file.
BLOCK CONTAINS 0 RECORDS.

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