Procedure division statements for the relative files, COBOL Programming

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PROCEDURE DIVISION statements for the relative files:

The statements OPEN, CLOSE, READ, WRITE and REWRITE that are available for sequential files are also available for the relative files. In addition, two other words, namely, the DELETE and START are also available. As observes the OPEN and CLOSE statements, there is no distinction between relative file and sequential disk file. 

 


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