On Tue, 21 May 2024 15:01:12 +0000 "Schmitt, Michael"
<[email protected]> wrote:
:>3. Depends on the language. IMS can have variable length segments but not
variable length fields, so any variable length fields are defined by the
application. If the application is in COBOL, there's no native variable length
field format. Applications can simulate variable length fields but how they do
it is in application logic.
Well, I don't know about that.
01 var-field-length pic s9(4) comp.
01 var-field.
05 var-field-character pic x occurs 1 to 1000 times depending on
var-field-length.
When a MOVE is performed to or from VAR-FIELD the length from VAR-FIELD-LENGTH
is used.
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Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]>
http://www.dissensoftware.com
Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel
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