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The INITIALIZE statement will do what you want but you need to be
careful. An INITIALIZE at the table level will set the value of the
entire table to spaces (or whatever value is specified in a REPLACING
clause). If there are numeric variables in the table, this can lead to
data decimal errors down the line.

John Arnold
(301) 354-2939


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[mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Munday
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:55 PM
To: COBOL
Subject: [COBOL400-L] COBOL 101 Question

I have an elementary question about initializing a table. Because of
staff turnover, there are no experienced programmers here who can answer
this.

I have a code example which sets a counter and initializes each table
element until all have been initialized. Is it possible just to issue
an initialize on the whole table? We do that in RPG.

Thanks,



Robert Munday
Munday Software Consultants
Montgomery, AL
on assignment in Columbia, SC
soon to be somewhere else...


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