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Can a REDEFINES clause be used along with an OCCURS clause?
if yes,
01 WS-TABLE.

03 WS-TABLE-EL OCCURS 5 TIMES PIC X(1) VALUE 'A'.

03 WS-EX REDEFINES WS-TABLE-EL PIC X(5). What can you
expect?
if no,why?


Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback



Can a REDEFINES clause be used along with an OCCURS clause? if yes, 01 WS-TABLE. 03 WS-TAB..

Answer / guest

Hi All,

The following combinations are possible with REDEFINES and
OCCURS clause.

1.Variable at level 01 can be redefined.
2.VALUE clause cannot be used along with the REDEFINES
clause.
3.Variable having OCCURS clause cannot be REDEFINED.
4.Variable at level 01 cannot have OCCURS clause.

Please correct if any of the above points are wrong.

Is This Answer Correct ?    7 Yes 1 No

Can a REDEFINES clause be used along with an OCCURS clause? if yes, 01 WS-TABLE. 03 WS-TAB..

Answer / vikas sharma

This clause work as when u have define this another 01 level..
We can not define like this...

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 2 No

Can a REDEFINES clause be used along with an OCCURS clause? if yes, 01 WS-TABLE. 03 WS-TAB..

Answer / vikas sharma

Yes, We Can.
In this question, When we display WS-EX we will get the
answer 5 times A. Like this AAAAA .

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 2 No

Can a REDEFINES clause be used along with an OCCURS clause? if yes, 01 WS-TABLE. 03 WS-TAB..

Answer / v@m$i

REDEFINES IS NOT USED IN OCCURS CLAUSE.

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 2 No

Can a REDEFINES clause be used along with an OCCURS clause? if yes, 01 WS-TABLE. 03 WS-TAB..

Answer / sunil

This works on MF-COBOL

Display WS-EX will display AAAAA

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 4 No

Can a REDEFINES clause be used along with an OCCURS clause? if yes, 01 WS-TABLE. 03 WS-TAB..

Answer / anoop

It is possible to use redefine class along with OCCURS
class, but you cannot redefine a table directly. So the
above code wont work.

01 ws-table
03 ws-table-el redefines ws-ex occurs 5 times pic x(1).

This is valid one.

Is This Answer Correct ?    3 Yes 7 No

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