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.........

what is dynamic array in cobol? what is the difference b/w array and table in cobol?

2 Answers  

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wht is packed decimal in cobol

2 Answers  

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What is JOBLIB and STEPLIB in JCL? what is the purpose of using it?

1 Answers  

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what is record label is empty or standard in file description of data division?

2 Answers   HCL,

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What is 66 level number and where it is used in real time by software developers?

2 Answers   ITC Indian Tobacco Company, TCS,

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Can we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to alphabetic field? If yes what are the way doing this?

6 Answers   T systems,

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How does IDMS communicate with CICS?

1 Answers   Covansys, Satyam,

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What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

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I have the file which is having the extension no as records. sample file will look like below. 2310 3410 3256 4350 3781 5408 I need to replace the record which is starting with 3 to 5 (i.e) 3410 to 5410. How can we do it through cobol and cobol-db2 program? I need the possible logic?

5 Answers   RBS,

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can we use variable picture clause as xx.99 in cobol.

3 Answers  

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1.give the details about WHEN OTHER. 2. how many form are available in evaluate.

0 Answers   IBM,

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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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