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What guidelines should be followed to write a structured cobol prgm?

1116

What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

1139

What are the bind parameters ibm db2?

1009

what are bind concepts in db2 cobol?

1051

What are foreign keys in db2?

1063

Is it possible to combine uni-rexx with a compiled language in any application? What applications interfaces are there?

884

What is the use of uni-rexx?

894

What are various loop types supported by rexx?

910

What are the various error conditions seen in rexx?

879

What does the sample library of uni-rexx consist of?

1017

What are the functions available in rexx?

902

Is it possible to port existing applications from the mainframe or os/2? Are there major changes required to do this?

872

Enlist the features of rexx as a programming language.

989

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1172

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1185

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

to use the rewrite command, how should the vsam file be opened?

1274

When we have a file with Duplicate records and I want to read the unique record from the file. For example a file containing Emp Name as 'Ram' and there are 3 entries of it. So how to read a unique record from File?

927

What is a mainframe?

948

What is check constraint in db2?

1029

Explain the difference between section, paragraph and sentences?

931

Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

1102

How did the release of cobol/370 version 1.3 improve the performance of release 1.1?

1046

what is the differences between getting the system time with eibtime and asktime command?

1090

What is psbgen process?

1131

What guidelines should be followed to write a structured cobol prgm?

1116

How to retrieve a physical file after deleting that?

1063

What is bind package and plan in db2?

1022

List out the buffer pools in db2

1043

Name the 3 common ways to create maps?

1084

Explain the maximum number of fields allowed per segment and what is the maximum number of fields per database?

1020

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