Answer / dinesh

COBOL is programming lang for mainframe. CICS is front end tool

Answer / karim

COBOL is programing language and cics is front end tool use
to create online process

Answer / raju

GIRISH I THINK THE QUESTION WOULD BE ...

WHAT IS THE CODING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NORMAL COBOL PROGRAM
AND CICS-COBOL PROGRAM ?

IF YES,

ANS)
1. IN BATCH (NORMAL COBOL) WE DECLARE THE FILES IN
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION WHERE AS IN ONLINE (CICS-COBOL) FCT
WILL BE USED.

2.IN BATCH WE USE ACCEPT & DISPLAY stmts ,in cics we use
SEND/RECEIVE commands.

3.in batch we use GO BACK,EXIT and STOP RUN, IN CICS RETURN
COMMAND TO INDICATE END OF THE PROGRAM.

Answer / babu

no file description in cics programs

Answer / sriharichallagundla

COBOL is programming lang for mainframe. CICS is front end tool

Answer / girish kumar

Im calling sub-program but sub-program is not available what will happen.

Answer / nag(igate)

i am few answers to Raju's answers....

1. The CICS commands should be coded in keyword-delimiter
i.e EXEC CICS ......END-EXEC. and the cobol not neccesary
to use keyword.

2. The Environment division is optional in CICS , while it
is mandatory in COBOl for decalring files

3. In CICS , we can test whether it is executed the program
first time or not. But in cobo, we cannot test it.

and they are many more.................

Answer / krishna chaitanya

Hi all

cobol is a high Level language . we can also call it as
programming lang .

CICS is a Language which is used to Develop the Screens .
its just like Scripting lang .

Ex : HTML

Its a lang which deals with assembler level Macros like
DFhmdf,dfhmdi,dfhmsd , dfhpct ........

Cics is a core for mainframes

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