Answer / chowdary

reusabulity of code and coding time will be reduced

Answer / vinay sonar

subprogram is used so that many programs can be merged into
single programs.also it reduces the required storage space
and no need to decleare variables again

Answer / naresh

reusability...........and subprogram can be used number of
times and call subprogram using 'call'
statement............inthis both supprogram and mainprogram
have same structure.........

How to read records from flat file in reverse order through COBOL program?

14 Answers   Accenture, Broadridge, IBM, MAT, Polaris, SPIC, Syntel, TCS, Wipro,

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what are the steps to sort in a cobol program?

2 Answers   Patni,

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i have a variable block which is used in my cobol program as input file having records of 4080 after compilation while runing the program im getiing file attribut mismatch and it is saying tht the record length of the file is 4084 can any one knw the answer how to reslove it ?

2 Answers  

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how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

0 Answers   HSBC, Quest,

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I have a sequential file of 100 records. How do I load the records into a two dimensional array ?

3 Answers   IBM, Xansa,

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What are the differences bitween cobol and cobol-2?

1 Answers   Wipro,

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plz any one tell clearly the justify right clause?

1 Answers  

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Scenario: I have 3 Input Files.Read the first i/p file and depending on certain business logic, I want to read wither i/p file-2 or i/p file-3.Now, depending on certain business logic applied to the record read from either file-2 or file-3, I decide to write them to either output file-2 or output file-2. Question: How many job steps are necessary to implement a solution for the above.

2 Answers   TCS,

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wht happens if we dnt give scope terminator ?

4 Answers   TCS,

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consider the following two statements MOVE 10 TO N PERFORM PARA-X N TIMES STOP RUN PARA-X MOVE 5 TO N how many times PARA-X willbe exicuted? a.10 b.5 c.infinate d.execution error

6 Answers   ABCL, TCS,

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How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

5 Answers   IBM,

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hi, can you ppl tell me, how to check whether the rewrite we gave for the ksds file is successful or not in the program.? i gave rewrite, the rewrite code is executing and maxcc=0 but updation doenot happen in the file?

1 Answers   CGI,

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