Can a variable length segment be declared in IMS? If yes,
what is the structure; If no, why?
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Answer / guest
Yes.
The first field should contain the segment length and then
we can have the variable lenth field at the end.
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Answer / gopal
seglen= maximum length of the variable segment you need to
mention in the dbd segment defination along with seg name .
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