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Data division—data description entry

A data description entry specifies the characteristics of a data item. In the sections that follow, sets of data description entries are called record description entries. The term data description entry refers to data and record description entries.

Data description entries that define independent data items do not make up a record. These entries are known as data item description entries.

Data description entries have three general formats, which are described in the following sections:

All data description entries must end with a separator period.


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