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AI-generatedCOBOL sequential file reads succeed locally but produce garbled output in production
Symptom A COBOL program using sequential file I/O with ORGANIZATION IS SEQUENTIAL and ACCESS MODE SEQUENTIAL compiles and runs without file-status errors on a local ASCII-based runtime. When deployed to an EBCDIC production environment, the same executable or recompiled source opens, reads, and writes successfully (file status 00), yet alphanumeric fields co
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