Record description for the variable-length records, COBOL Programming

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Record Description for the Variable-length Records:

When the variable- length records consists of records of various lengths, each record type is to be explained at level 01 following the FD entry for the file. The variable part is defined with the OCCURS...DEPENDING clause.

FD VARIABLE-FILE

            RECORD CONTAINS 40 TO 92 CHARACTERS

            BLOCK CONTAINS 933 TO 1024 CHARACTES

            LABEL RECORDS AERA ATANDARDA

            RECORDING MODE IS V

            VALUS OF INDENTIFICATION IS "VARFILE".

01 VARIABLE-RECORD.

            02 ACCOUNT-NUMBER    PIC 9(6).

            02 NAME  PIC  X(20).

            02 NO-OF-PAYAMENTS    PIC 9.

            02 PAYMENTS    OCCURS 1 TO 5 TIMES DEPENDING ON

               NO-OF-PAYMENTS   INDEXED BY TAB-INDEX.

               03 DATE-OF-PAYAMENT   9(6).

               03 AMOUNT-OF-PAYMENT  9(5)V99.


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