Lisa,
Thanks for waking up memories of COBOL that I have been trying to run away
from! Anyway.... a FILLER is just that - a filler or placeholder to pad out
or format a 'record' in the WORKING STORAGE or FILE section (eq. to the
declarative section in PL/SQL). If this is part of a retrieved record from a
file, it is sometime used to pad upto a 4-byte boundary. For a quick newbie
look at COBOL, go to http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/facstaff/lam_m/cobolp.htm
<http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/facstaff/lam_m/cobolp.htm> Let me know offline if
you have additional queries.
John Kanagaraj
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Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 8:15 AM
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Good morning everyone,
I have this messy document that is known as a copybook. I've been searching
the web to help me understand what the appropriate way to translate this
into a table is. If anyone has a link they are willing to share, or is
willing to answer questions (like what the heck is FILLER?) please email me
directly.
Thank you!
Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Administrator
954-935-4117
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