Alder Books Reconciliation: COBOL copybook for the GL feed
COBOL copybook for the GL feed for Alder Books Reconciliation. A COBOL record description for the same 120-character layout, with PIC clauses matching gl-feed-layout.json field for field: X(n) for the alphanumeric fields and 9(12)V99 for the two amount fields, which is where the two implied decimal places are declared. Comment lines carry the column ranges.
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* GL-FEED-RECORD *
* Fixed length 120 characters, no record delimiter within *
* the record. One record per line, LF terminated. *
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01 GL-FEED-RECORD.
05 GL-RECORD-ID PIC X(10).
* columns 1 to 10, length 10
05 GL-POSTING-DATE PIC X(10).
* columns 11 to 20, length 10
05 GL-ACCOUNT-CODE PIC X(8).
* columns 21 to 28, length 8
05 GL-DESCRIPTION PIC X(60).
* columns 29 to 88, length 60
05 GL-DEBIT-CENTS PIC 9(12)V99.
* columns 89 to 102, length 14
05 GL-CREDIT-CENTS PIC 9(12)V99.
* columns 103 to 116, length 14
05 GL-CURRENCY PIC X(4).
* columns 117 to 120, length 4
* End of copybook.
Specifications
- Document Set
- accounting
- Industry
- finance
- Source Kit
- accounting-reconciliation
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Fields
- 7
- Record Length
- 120
- Line Endings
- LF
- Encoding
- ASCII
Testing contract
Reference control- Scenario
- Compare the copybook PIC clauses with the JSON column map.
- Expected result
- The 7 PIC clauses total 120 characters and each one's width matches the length of the field with the same name in gl-feed-layout.json; the two 9(12)V99 clauses are the fields the JSON map declares with amountScale 2.
What is a .txt file?
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How to use this file
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How to use this file for testing
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