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COBOL alignment z/OS Language Environment Writing Interlanguage Communication Applications SA38-0684-00 |
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COBOL structures are mapped as follows. Working from the beginning, each item is aligned to its required boundary in the order in which it is declared. The structure starts on a doubleword boundary. If you specify the SYNCHRONIZED phrase, then BINARY and floating-point data items are aligned on halfword, fullword, doubleword boundaries, depending on their length. If SYNCHRONIZED is not specified, then all data items are aligned on a byte boundary only. |
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