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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.



  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: August 03, 2007     Asked by: irinak 
  
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August 03, 2007 17:20:16   #1  
altehexe74 Member Since: April 2007   Contribution: 12    

RE: What is the WORKING-STORAGE SECTION in Cobol?
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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