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Cobalt Operations Team: COBOL copybook for the payment file

COBOL copybook for the payment file for Cobalt Operations Team. A COBOL record description for the same 105-character layout, with PIC clauses matching bank-payment-layout.json field for field: X(n) for the alphanumeric fields and 9(9)V99 for the amount, which is where the two implied decimal places are declared. Comment lines carry the column ranges.

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Document Set
payroll
Industry
people-operations
Source Kit
people-operations
Synthetic
true
As Of
2026-09-08
Fields
9

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Specifications

Document Set
payroll
Industry
people-operations
Source Kit
people-operations
Synthetic
true
As Of
2026-09-08
Fields
9
Record Length
105
Line Endings
LF
Encoding
ASCII

Testing contract

Reference control
Scenario
Compare the copybook PIC clauses with the JSON column map.
Expected result
The 9 PIC clauses total 105 characters and each one's width matches the length of the field with the same name in bank-payment-layout.json. The single 9(9)V99 clause is the field the JSON map declares with amountScale 2.

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