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Alex
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Posted: Jul 23, 2026, 10:16 AM
Need a list of 50 account numbers. In other languages I would use an array. Is that OCCURS?
Thread: COBOL
How do I make an array / table in COBOL?
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Marty
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Posted: Jul 23, 2026, 12:16 PM
Yes.
01 WS-ACCT-TABLE.
05 WS-ACCT-NUM PIC 9(8) OCCURS 50 TIMES.
Then WS-ACCT-NUM (3) is the third one. Subscripts start at 1, not 0.
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Priya
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Posted: Jul 23, 2026, 4:16 PM
Starting at 1 got me at least twice coming from Java.
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