You can use the VALUE clause in the data description of a table element to initialize all instances of that element to the specified value.
01 T2.
05 T-OBJ PIC 9 VALUE 3.
05 T OCCURS 5 TIMES
DEPENDING ON T-OBJ.
10 X PIC XX VALUE "AA".
10 Y PIC 99 VALUE 19.
10 Z PIC XX VALUE "BB".
For example, the code above causes all the X elements (1 through 5) to be initialized to AA, all the Y elements (1 through 5) to be initialized to 19, and all the Z elements (1 through 5) to be initialized to BB. T-OBJ is then set to 3.
related tasks
Assigning values to a variable-length table
related references
OCCURS clause (Enterprise COBOL Language Reference)