What is the WORKING-STORAGE SECTION in Cobol?

A place to reserve storage for data that is not part of the program's input or output.
This area contains fields that are used as temporary storage while the program is executing.
Some temporary storage variables include:
switches,
flags,
fields containing textual comments,
fields to accumulate numeric totals.

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altehexe74

  • Aug 3rd, 2007
 

you need the section to define all your variables.
But you don´t have to hardcode. You can copy a copybook, where you´re variables are inside.
let me know, if you need more details.

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Abyss

  • Sep 8th, 2011
 

It is the working as in WORKING storage section in Cobol

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Jeevan

  • Sep 16th, 2011
 

In the working-storage section all the temporarily fields are declared.

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