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using the checkout option to extract the file from
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1)what is use of linkage section? 2)what is difference between comp and comp-3

1 Answers   Cap Gemini,

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Name the divisions in a COBOL program ?

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consider the following piece of code 01 GROSS-PAY 05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5) 05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3) if BASIC-PAY has a value 1000 and ALLOWENCES has a value of 250,what will be displayed by the statement DISPLAY GROSS-PAY a.1250 b.01000250 c.01250 d.1.250

3 Answers   TCS,

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What is a subscript ?

3 Answers  

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Can we put move statement in COBOL copybook

3 Answers   Global Logic,

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How do we get current date from system with century in COBOL?

0 Answers   Winsol Solutions,

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how to access vsam files in cobol and how to differentiate that this is ESDS file

1 Answers   EDS,

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What will happen if a variable is declared as below.. Explain with an example? Working storage section:- 01 WS-VARX PIC X(10) VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJ'. 01 WS-VARN REDEFINES WS-VARX PIC 9(5) VALUE '12345'. What will happen I want Display WS-VARX and WS-VARN?

3 Answers   Xansa,

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Will the variable POS in the following code have a value of 2 or not? 01 POS PIC S9(4) COMP VALUE 2. 01 FIRST-NAME PIC X(10) VALUE 'ABC'. 01 LAST-NAME PIC X(10) VALUE 'XYZ'. 01 NAME PIC X(20) VALUE SPACES. STRING FIRST-NAME DELIMITED BY SPACES ' ' DELIMITED BY SIZE LAST-NAME DELIMITED BY SPACES INTO NAME WITH POINTER POS

2 Answers  

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Can we access the a[0] in the array ?

6 Answers   DCL, IBM,

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What is the default value of DISP for temp datasets

5 Answers   IBM,

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wht is packed decimal in cobol

2 Answers  

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