How you can delete a record from a ps file in cobol?



How you can delete a record from a ps file in cobol?..

Answer / shib

No we can not...we can skip a record logically and write the file.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-aix/5.1?topic=mode-file-organization-access

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