Re: COBOL KEY SEGMENTS

From: "Richard" <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 9 Nov 2006 06:40:48 -0800

alexandretalbert@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Can anyone tell me why COBOL creates every key segment (for indexed
files) as STRING?? Even if the KEY FILEDS are numeric (PIC 9) ..

When the programa creates the file (btrieve), ...

The answer is: 'COBOL' doesn't.

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