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[bj2860]

How do you write a COBOL program that is suppose to print total sales for 20 salespeople that are not in sequence? Number of input records could be more than 20, but output should only be 20, plus you have to have total company sales also. Any help would be appreciated as I am lost.
Thanks

 

[Crox]

Hi,

You sort the records in a way that all the sales people are together.

In your program you consider a group of records with the same salesman-identifier.

But, if the idea is not to sort, you can use a table to add the sales for each salesman. Because there are only 20 of them, it will fit in a working-storage table.

something like:

01 SALES-PEOPLE.
03 SALESMAN OCCURS 20.
05 SALESMAN-IDENTIFIER PIC X(10).
05 SALESMAN-SALES PIC S9(11)V99 COMP.

You initialize the table. During the processing you look up if the salesman-identifier exists in the table. If not, you add it. You also add the sales to salesman-sales for each record you process.

I hope this helps.