Multiple choice technology mainframe

Data in IDENTIFICATION-TABLE IDENT-ID IDENT-NAME IDENT-AGE (Assume all fields are null suppressed)-----------------------------1234 AAAA 232345 bbbb 133456 ADSB 254567 DADS 155678 EDSC 20READ IDENTIFICATION-TABLE BY SUPER-ID-NAME-AGE STARTING FROM '1234' DISPLAY IDENT-ID IDENT-NAME IDENT-AGELOOPHow many number of records will be displayed in the output?* bbbb stands for no value in that field

  1. 3

  2. 4

  3. 5

  4. Program will terminate abnormally
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The READ statement using the super descriptor SUPER-ID-NAME-AGE starting from '1234' will retrieve records in sequential order. With null-suppressed fields and 5 data rows, the READ operation processes all records and displays 4 of them based on the matching criteria defined by the super descriptor.

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