Q:what is the difference between the variable length and
fixed lenght.how it varies in the cobol.
Answer Posted / krishnakumar
In JCL:
We have to code acutual lentgh + 4 Bytes for Variable
length files.For fixed length files we have to code actual
length.
in COBOL:
In FD Section we have to write
Recording Mode is F --> for Fixed length files,
Recording Mode is V --> for Variablelength files
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