Answer / ankur

If the Program is having 'USING' clause with procedure
division then it will be Sub-program.

Eg - PROCEDURE DIVISION USING DFHCOMMAREA.

Answer / guest

for mainprogram it ends with stoprun,subprogram ends with
exit

How we copy a program from production region to development region.What is the process & syntax ?

3 Answers   CTS,

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write a program to eliminate duplicate records in a input file and send them to output file.

2 Answers   IBM,

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What is Alternate Index ? How is it different from regular index ?

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where will we code call by content and call by reference dude pls reply soon ?

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I am getting S00F abend when i try to compare two variable of different pic class,one variable is of 9(09) and another is S9(09) comp-3. First i moved the data from S9(09) comp-3 to 9(09), but no luck. So i tried to move the data from S9(09) comp-3 to X (09) and move to 9(09). I am getting same error message, Please help me to find solution for this ptoblem. ERROR MESSAGE - "The system or user abend S00F R=NULL was issued."

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Hi all, I have a following requirement to write the cobol program. I have to load the 129 variables from input sequential file which are in excel sheet to the cobol inernal table. and after loading into table i have to compare this data with the business file. here compare means controlling the data whether the format(numeric,alpha) is same in the business file and in the table??? i have the same data in input and business file. could anyone please give me any idea of the logic?// i have all the 129 different variables(129rows,1 column)is there .

4 Answers   IBM, Syntel, TCS,

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what happens if we dont close cursor in db2-cobol pgm?

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How to read records in reverse order in flat file? I know we can do it by reading all records into an array.... Then read records in reverse order by using subscript or index but can any body give me the exact code.

5 Answers   TCS,

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Consider the following: 77 A PIC 9(10) 77 B PIC 9(10) 77 C PIC 9(19) MULTIPLY AB BY B GIVING C Which of the following is true ? (a) The execution of the above may result in size error. (b) The execution of the above will result in size error. (c) The definition of C is invalid resulting in compilation error. (d) No error will be thee and the program would proceed correctly.

4 Answers   TCS,

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Determine the total no of bytes in the following. 01 rec1. 02 a pic x(6) 02 b redefines a. 03 c occus 6 times pic 9. 02 d occurs 6 times pic 9. 03 e pic x(5) 03 f pic 999.

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what are the steps to sort in a cobol program?

2 Answers   Patni,

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How many bytes will be allocated for the following record description entries? 01 REC-A. 05 A PIC S9(4). 05 B PIC XXXBXXX. 05 C PIC ____9.99. 05 D PIC S9(5) COMP-3. 05 E PIC 9(3) COMP.

16 Answers   IBM, TCS,

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