Depending on your file structure, this might not matter to you. Otherwise, you will
have more data in your file than you may have intended. You just have to be
careful.
2.5 Copybook and include
File Manager V3 can process PL/I Includes as well as COBOL copybooks as
shown in Example 2-26 and Example 2-27.
Example 2-26 COBOL copybook
01 REC-TYPE01.
03 REC-TYPE PIC XX.
03 NAME PIC X(20).
03 EMPLOYEE-NO PIC 9(4) BINARY.
03 AGE PIC 9(4) BINARY.
03 SALARY PIC 9(7) PACKED-DECIMAL.
03 MONTH PIC 9(8) BINARY OCCURS 12 TIMES.
03 FILLER PIC XX.
01 REC-TY ...
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