You end up setting the entire table to SPACES
with:
MOVE SPACES TO WS-EDI-HOLD-TABLE
That would be all 269000 bytes that comprize this table will now contain spaces
Any MOVE SPACES TO data-item
type statement implicitly references all lower level data items as well. Beware that this type of reference assumes PICTURE X
data. This can lead to real trouble when a lower level data item has an explicit PICTURE that is not compatible with 'X' type data, as is the case with COMP-3 fields for example.