Can a variable length segment be declared in IMS? If yes,
what is the structure; If no, why?

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Can a variable length segment be declared in IMS? If yes, what is the structure; If no, why?..

Answer / guest

Yes.

The first field should contain the segment length and then
we can have the variable lenth field at the end.

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Can a variable length segment be declared in IMS? If yes, what is the structure; If no, why?..

Answer / gopal

seglen= maximum length of the variable segment you need to
mention in the dbd segment defination along with seg name .

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