Multiple choice technology mainframe

How many bytes will be assigned to a field which is defined with USAGE POINTER?

  1. 4

  2. 6

  3. 8

  4. 10
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Explanation

POINTER is a special COBOL usage type that stores addresses (pointers to data areas). Regardless of the platform, POINTER always occupies 4 bytes of storage. This is standard across mainframe COBOL implementations.

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