identification division. program-id. Max_array. data division. working-storage section. 01 ws-array-1 pic s9(8) occurs 65535 times. 01 ws-array-2 pic s9(8) occurs 65535 times. 01 i pic s9(8) comp. procedure division. move 0 to i. perform varying i from 1 by 1 until i > 65535 if ws-array-1(i) > ws-array-2(i) move ws-array-1(i) to ws-array-2(i) end-if end-perform. stop run.