I have the file which is having the extension no as records.
sample file will look like below.

2310
3410
3256
4350
3781
5408

I need to replace the record which is starting with 3 to 5
(i.e) 3410 to 5410. How can we do it through cobol

and cobol-db2 program? I need the possible logic?

Answer Posted / pa

read the record to the WS varible defined below
01 ws-var1.
05 ws-var2 pic x(1).
05 ws-var3 pic x(2).

if ws-var2 = '3'
inspect ws-var replacing first '3' by '5'
end -if

read the next record.

Hope it works

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