Size of a column has been changed in DB2 table (Suppose it
was of 5 characters and later changed to 4 characters) and
forgot to change the DCLGEN in COBOL program, what will
happen during the execution of code? If the program Abends
then what will be the error? If it doesn't abend then hpw
the error can be catched?
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Answer / chitra
The program will get abended and the error will data
exception error.
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Answer / srikanth doki
The error will not be catched at that time. Dclgen will not
check the database tables and the dbrm will check the
database if it is not matched then the data exception error
will be raised at that time.
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Answer / suresh
The program will get abended and the error will data
exception error.
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Answer / ankit
it will work normally until the data fetched is of 4 bytes
but if it will be fetching a data of 5 bytes, then a
exception will occur and program will abend with abend code
SOC7.
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Answer / mohit
Nothing critical will happen.. I will make understand with
example below:
Consider some 2 bytes as * are before that variable as $
and then rest copybook as & , so after changing table
layout will look like:
**$$$$&&&&&& and program will layout as
**$$$$$&&&&&&. So, now what happens table always passes
something as 4 bytes to 5 bytes which easily is compatible
with a bigger space. So, you will see a space actually
which might disturb your output.
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