Answer / mehdee

When you need a data field to have value less than any
other data INITIALZE or MOVE LOW-VALUES to that filed. same
for HIGH-VALUES when you need that field to have valuue
more that any other data.

Answer / aditya

it depends upon the logic we are writing.if we dont know the lowest value record.we can move the low values and can write a logic as read next in the case of files concept.its just an example

Answer / mahesh

when we a small integer then we have to use low value
otherwise go for high-value

What is ASKTIME, SUSPEND

1 Answers   IBM,

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consider the following FD FILE-1 01 REC-1 PIC X(80) ...... WORKING-STORAGE SECTION 01 W-REC PIC X(90) ........ PROCEDURE DIVISION FIRST-PARA ....... READ FILE-1 INTO W-REC AT END MOVE 1 TO EOF-FLAG which of the following is true with respect to the above? a.REC-1 will contain nothing and W-REC will contain the contains of the record read b.REC-1 and W-REC contain the same data c.syntex is invalid and error will occur d.REC-1 and W-REC must be of same size

1 Answers   TCS,

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What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

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In COBOL programming, what is PERFORM? What is VARYING?

0 Answers   CDC,

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what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

0 Answers   HSBC,

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What are the differences between COBOL and COBOL II?

1 Answers   CSC,

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have in 100 records in a file i want to move only matched records to one output_file1 and nonmathed records are moved to another output_file2 ... any one can provide logic code

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where did you see the information regarding abend codes in jcl?

1 Answers   Hewitt,

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What is an in line PERFORM? When would you use it? Anything else to say about it?

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I have a table with 3 dimensions like this : 01 ws-table 04 ws-page occurs 3 08 ws-column occurs 2. 12 ws-record occurs 20 pic x(40). How to code with PERFORM varying with 3 dimension...I forgot..

2 Answers   EDS,

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hi is there any means of deletin a record from a ps usin cobol not using jcl?eg if i am reading a record and if some condition is matched tat particular record must be deletd fom the ps

5 Answers   iNautix,

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