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Hi,

I had declare a variable with OCCURS by 10 times. So it is 40 bytes.

Could we store 40 bytes into the variable.?
please advise on this.

Thanks

Hello,

It will help if you clarify what you want to do. Post some bits of code to illustrate.

If you have a 40-byte variable you can surely store 40 bytes of data in it whether it is in an array or not.

I am not sure this answers your question. . .

Yes, move the data to the top-level data field of the table.

03 tabel-a pic x(40).
03 filler redefines tabel-a occuring 10 times.
05 field-x Pic x(4).

move field-40 to tabel-a.

OCCURS by 10 times

There is no "OCCURS by" I'm aware of, it's just "OCCURS" for a table in COBOL.

If definition of the table in question is as shown by wspreeuw, yes you can store 40 bytes into the variable.