What are COBOL equivalents of DB2 data types CHAR, DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP?

DB2 Database Big Data Analytics

The DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP DB2 data types occupy 4, 3 and 10 bytes respectively. The memory occupied by the CHAR data types is occupied as per the size given. Below table shows the equivalent COBOL data types for CHAR, DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP.

DB2 data type	DB2 Bytes	COBOL equivalent	COBOL bytes
CHAR(z)	z	PIC X(z)	z
DATE	4	PIC X(10)	10
TIME	3	PIC X(8)	8
TIMESTAMP	10	PIC X(26)	26

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Updated on: 14-Sep-2020

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