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I have a source program compiled with Cobol-2. The output file has a record length of 100 defined in the program but a record of 60 bytes getting written into it. i.e. The rest of 40 bytes I am not Writing anything. But it by default puts some values into the last 40 bytes. However it does not impact anything. But when Compiled the module with Enterprise Cobol the last 40 bytes were spaces as fillers. Can anyone explain?

Cognizant,

5 16723

what is meaning by design document? who can repared for this?

TCS,

5 14684

How can i write a comp-3 variable into a sequential file should i declara the field in the file description as comp- 3?

1 11130

what is level 66 means??

7 27625

Can the OCCURS clause be at the 01 level?

Oracle,

8 21907

i have two file one is ksds another one is esds i want store matching records in flat file how to you matching.

Wipro,

2 10287

how will u find out 3rd week's 2nd day using occurs ?

L&T,

3 9632

Read filea And file b write the same records in both files? Records in a but not in b record in b but not in a

TCS,

3 8615

How will you find the currepted records in a file

2 6568

perform I from 0 by 1 until I=5?How maney times it will executes

8 15573

What will happen if we try to create GDG (+2) generaton instead of (+1) generation?

1 7313

How many maximum number of procedures can we write in one COBOL program?

6 10787

Can we move X(9) to 9(9). If yes what are the ways for doing this?

3 10129

What will happen if we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to alphabetic field?

2 8269

What is SDSF?

3 11730

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which is Best IBM Mainframe Training and Placement Institute in Ameerpet Hyderabad

1469

Hi pls anybody tell me about " ANALYSIS DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND ESTIMATION OF TASK " (in real time project)."I want to update a sequential file in my project" for that purpose i need both structures i mean analysis document and estimation of task.

2097

How can you get the ksds file records into your cobol program?

1054

How to remove the spaces at the end of each record in the output file of variable length, via cobol program?

1123

Explain how you can characterize tables in cobol?

1023

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1276

Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

1211

if we have " ibm mainframe ",in that how to remove first and last leading space eg:"ibm mainframe" like that the answer we need

1311

How to read the 2nd last record of a VSAM file? (The file size is huge and we don't know the key)

3219

How can we find that module can be called – whether DYNAMICALLY or STATICALLY?

1178

how do you reference the printer file formats from cobol programs

1165

Why did you choose to work with ibm mainframe cobol programming?

1051

What is inspect in cobol ?

1257

What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1163

How do you reference the fixed block file formats from cobol programs

1178

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