VSAM

TRANSPARENCIES
(Unit 5)

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Variable Length Records

Objective - Student will
Be able to code for using variable length
records in a COBOL program
Understand how variable length is
different from fixed length

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Variable Length Records (Contd..)

Variable vs. Fixed

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Variable Length Records (Contd..)

The 1st of Two Ways to Code for
Variable Length files in Cobol

FD VAR-FILE.
LABEL RECORDS ARE STANDARD
BLOCK CONTAINS 0 RECORDS
RECORD CONTAINS 80 TO 320 CHARACTERS
DATA RECORDS ARE VAR-RECORD-1
VAR-RECORD-2
VAR-RECORD-3.
01 VAR-RECORD-1

PIC X(80).

01 VAR-RECORD-2

PIC X(150).

01 VAR-RECORD-3

PIC X(320).

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Variable Length Records (Contd..)

The 2nd of Two Ways to Code for
Variable Length files in Cobol

FD VAR-FILE.
LABEL RECORDS ARE STANDARD
BLOCK CONTAINS0 RECORDS
RECORD CONTAINS 4 TO 504 CHARACTERS
DATA RECORD IS VAR-RECORD.
01

VAR-RECORD.
05 BANK-REGION

PIC 9(02)

05 NUM-BANKS

PIC 9(02).

05 BANK OCCURS 0 TO 10 TIMES DEPENDING ON NUMBANKS.

10 BANK-INFO

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PIC X(50).

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Exercise 4
Use VSAM file and process
maintenance transactions for inserts,
updates and deletes

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