Parandhama

• Jul 19th, 2011

 

Using the 'REVERSE' while opening the file.

Ex: OPEN MODE FILE-NAME REVERSED

talluri

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• Jul 27th, 2011

 

not possible, but we have another way that is

using sort with descending and read

burelamanohar

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• Dec 13th, 2011

 

I tried REVERSE and REVERSED, but compiler is not recognizing them as keywords. We can achieve this by using SORT.

rasheeed17

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• Jan 19th, 2012

 

I have never seen any keyword like REVERSE or REVERSED in COBOL.

- If you want to read the file in reverse order, first sort you file so that you get the records in reverse order then read the file sequentially.

NOTE: sorting the file for reversing the records ONLY WORKS if all the records in your file are in either ASCENDING or DESC order, other wise your file record sequence/order is lost

Harsha

• Jul 26th, 2014

 

In CICS, we can read the file in reverse order using READPREV command. In batch is not possible to read file in reverse order. Instead sort the file in reverse order and then read in COBOL program

Gyanendra Singh

• Jul 7th, 2016

 

Can be done in VSAM : by using Low and HIGH-VALUE
If you pass HIGH-VALUE to the key field, then it will read the record from bottom

sunny

• Jun 28th, 2017

 

Add a seq number to file thru JCL (1:seqnum,3,zd) and sort the file in descending order sortfields=copy, include cond=(1,3,zd,d) after this provide the file in Cobol as input.