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I have a requirement in which i need to find all the unitialized variables in a cobol code?Any idea on how to go about this

Your requirement is far from obvious. Do you mean:

Any variable WITHOUT a VALUE clause?
Any variable not listed (explicitly OR implicitly) in an INITIALIZE statement?
Both of the above?
Something else entirely?

Both of the above.

The easiest and fastest way will be manual code inspection. Developing an automated tool could be done but probably won't be worth the effort. Some vendor packages include such analysis automatically -- you might check to see if your site has something that will do this already.

What are teh packages you are mentioning about?

Check your compiler listings - generally the compiler can give a cross reference of where a variable is declared and used - the enterprise cobol compiler even indicates which statements update a variable.