Size of a column has been changed in DB2 table (Suppose it
was of 5 characters and later changed to 4 characters) and
forgot to change the DCLGEN in COBOL program, what will
happen during the execution of code? If the program Abends
then what will be the error? If it doesn't abend then hpw
the error can be catched?

Answer Posted / ankit

it will work normally until the data fetched is of 4 bytes
but if it will be fetching a data of 5 bytes, then a
exception will occur and program will abend with abend code
SOC7.

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