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File Records with no COPY Clause can be risky

This code insight count a violation each time a file record has more than one data and is not in a copy clause. Bad: 000130 DATA DIVISION. 000140 FILE SECTION. 000150 FD SALES-FILE 000160 RECORDING MODE IS F. 000170 000180 01 SALES-RECORD. 000190 05 BROKER-REGION PIC 9. 000200 05 BROKER-CITY PIC X(19). 000210 05 BROKER-NAME PIC X(20). 000220 000230 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. Good : 000130 DATA DIVISION. 000140 FILE SECTION. 000150 FD STUDENT-FILE 000160 RECORD CONTAINS 43 CHARACTERS 000170 DATA RECORD IS STUDENT-IN. 000180 01 STUDENT-IN PIC X(43). 000190 000200 FD PRINT-FILE 000210 RECORD CONTAINS 80 CHARACTERS 000220 DATA RECORD IS PRINT-LINE. 000230 COPY CopyPrintFileRecord 000240 000250 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.

Why you should care

File records should be described in a copy clause.

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For reference only. For the complete details please refer the original article
https://doc.casthighlight.com/alt_nocopyclause_avoid-file-records-not-in-in-copy-clause/