If a size of column has been changed in table (Suppose it was of 5 characters and later changed to 4 characters) and forgot to change the DCLGEN in COBOL program, will the program abend abnormally..If yes then what error will occur? If the program will not abend then what will happen?

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• Member Since Aug-2010 | Aug 13th, 2010

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1. Program will not abend, but there will be trancation in data,
Given in program 'APPLE' the value stored in database will be 'APPL'.

This is what I assume ---> As long as DCLGEN is a generated, but program not yet compiled, the old load and DBRM's bind remains the same and the only thing would be trancation in data at runtime.

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1. Program will not abend, but there will be trancation in data,Given in program 'APPLE' the value stored in database will be 'APPL'.This is what I assume ---> As long as DCLGEN is ...

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