WE HAVE 5 DIFFERENT RECORDING MODE IN COBOL.FIXED,
FIXEDBLOCK, VARIABLE, VARIABLEBLOCK AND UNDEFINED.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE AMONG ALL AND WHICH TYPE OF FORMAT
SHOULD BE USED WHEN

Answer Posted / mr.perfect

hi Vinothaaa , yours answers wrong.

FB -- We can compress , because i used the my cobol prgm in
this format, whenever space is not enough. i used to compress.
it is allowed me to do this.

U --unformat mode, the data will store in not human readbale
format.

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