1 You should also know that the conjugate base of a Bronsted acid is the species formed when a proton is lost from that acid (e.g., hydroxide ion is the conjugate base of water; water is the conjugate base of the hydronium ion).
Mainframe_Dinosaur Profile Answers by Mainframe_Dinosaur. Mainframe programmers wouldn't normally write a Cobol program just to count the number of records in a file. We would count the number of records using DFSort or SyncSort, or use AMS(Idcams repro). Both SORT and REPRO would be executed in a JCL stream. Much faster than writing a Cobol program.
Define the record as a single field (my-data-field) with the physical size equal to the maximum record length. On the FD and SELECT statements (in a COBOL program) use the DEPENDING ON field-name-for-my-record-size to define a field that will determine the size of the record to be written to a file. Next, determine the length of the text string within the single field (my-data-field) that defines the record layout.