I had 100 records and i want to execute last three records by
using cobol programming?what will be coding?

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I had 100 records and i want to execute last three records by using cobol programming?what will be..

Answer / farid

In jcl we can do as follows.........

1st skip the 97 recordes and write rest 3 into another file
using sort utilities(with the help of jcl).now cobol program
can use the 2nd file which has only last 3 records

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I had 100 records and i want to execute last three records by using cobol programming?what will be..

Answer / atul

Using Short card you can write the last 3 records.
Short card as :

SORT FIELDS=COPY SKIPREC=97 STOPAFT=03


It will copy the last three records and put it in a file.

Cobol program can use this file containing records.

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I had 100 records and i want to execute last three records by using cobol programming?what will be..

Answer / sandip

In cobol apply counter while reading file if counter reach at 97 start writing record to another file.

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I had 100 records and i want to execute last three records by using cobol programming?what will be..

Answer / harsha

Read file sequentially and load it in table. keep check on
the number of ocurances(i.e. number of records).

Once the table is fully loaded, you know the total
occurances. Say it is X. Now read the table with occurance
X-3

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