What is the difference between copy and include in cobol?



What is the difference between copy and include in cobol?..

Answer / srinivas

As far as I know, we use INCLUDE in COBOL-DB2 programs to copy the contents of the DCLGEN to the program. The only difference between INCLUDE and COPY is that while INCLUDE is executed at pre-compile time (by the SQL compiler), COPY is executed at compile time(by the COBOL compiler)

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