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Why we are not using multiple when conditions in searchall...

multiple when conditions

What do you mean by that?

Its difficult to understand your question.
Search All (Binary Search) can only specify one condition related to the key, and nothing but the key. Thats the idea with binary search.
If you want to specify "multiple" conditions, you can use sequential Search (remove the All keyword).

SEARCH ALL will discover whether an item exists in the table, or it does not. Since there are only two possible outcomes, which are mutually exclusive, and can already be identified as seperate, there is no opportunity for multiple condition statements.

There is a link to IBM Manuals at the top of the page. If you click on it, then click on the Enterprise COBOL Language Reference manual, you can find the syntax diagram for the SEARCH ALL statement in section 6.2.32 and it explicitly allows a WHEN condition to use AND, so even though you can only use one WHEN statement that statement can be a compound condition.

Thanks to all....