Hands-on exerciseIntermediate25 min
COBOL: count and total payments by status
Finance wants a quick count of payments by status, and the total of approved ones. PAYSTAT reads the file and prints the report, but the paragraph that does the counting is empty.
What you will do
- Use 88-level condition names
- Write an EVALUATE
- Compile, link and run, then check the report
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