How to read the last 100 records from a COBOL file. The file contains N number

How to read the last 100 records from a COBOL file. The file
contains N number of records.

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How to read the last 100 records from a COBOL file. The file contains N number of records...

Answer / guest1

Using FILE-AID, copy lost 100 records only in to a seperate
file and read the records.

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