How to read records from flat file in reverse order through
COBOL program?
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Being a flat file, we cant be sure that it will have a unique key field. So, External to the cobol program , using SORT utility, we can add a serial no column, and then SORT it in descending order based on that column and read the file sequentially in COBOL program.
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