Your COBOL program needs to process a large dataset of financial transactions that must be read in a specific order. Which file processing technique is most appropriate?
- Indexed processing
- Relative processing
- Sequential processing
- Sort the dataset before processing
For processing data in a specific order, Sequential processing is appropriate. This ensures that records are processed in the order they appear in the file.
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