All thength fields MUST occur before length depending on. On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:23 AM Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > -- > Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> > http://www.dissensoftware.com > > Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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