In the Software AG Adabas V8.2.4 source lib (COBADA8), an example was provided to show how to code Adabas ACBX direct calls in COBOL. This is a very excellent skeleton to begin to code other Adabas direct call programs using ACBX calls. The example below takes that source program and corrects the mistakes and makes a few programmatic improvements.
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