wht is the use of evalute verb ? how do u declare recfm in cobol and jcl ?

Answer Posted / kaarthik

Just to add to the already given answers,

Evaluate is mainly used to eliminate the use of Nested-if's
this is introduced as part of VS-COBOL 2 .

As for REC-FM,
While defining the file in COBOL,

Give RECORDING MODE IS F

In JCL, Give DCB=(RECFM = FB,LRECL=XX,BLKSIZE=xxx)

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