Answer / Jay Vardhan Hemant

For a Binary Large Object (BLOB) cell, the Pic (Picture Clause) does not have a fixed format because it stores binary data. However, when declaring a BLOB field in a CICS COBOL program, you can use PIC X(n) or PIC S9(n)Z to define the maximum length of the cell.n

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