A cobol program to read a file , match it with other if. If match occurs then w

A cobol program to read a file , match it with other if.
If match occurs then write it to an output file. If no
match then no need to write it.Error log created by program
to track any error.

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A cobol program to read a file , match it with other if. If match occurs then write it to an output..

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procedure:
1. take 4 seq. files,read two files
2.if rec1(key1)=rec2(key2)
write record3
else
write record4

or using jcl
pgm=iebcmpr
sysut1 dd dsn=dataset1
sysut2 dd dsn=dataset2
sysin dd *
compare typorg=ps/po

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