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.
The fourth division in a COBOL (sub)program is the PROCEDURE DIVISION, which contains the executable code. It is comprised of one or more paragraphs, each of which is identified by a programmer-supplied name. The rules governing whether a paragraph name is valid are the same as those governing data names.