Answer / samrat

Two types of sort are there:-

1) DFSORT
2) SYNCSORT

Answer / ghjkkj

Internal sort is handled by a cobol program using i/p file,work file and o/p file.
Internal sort is when you do any processing you need to recompile the cobol program
External sort is performed through jcl where you provide SORTIN and SORTOUT datasets and its easier to perform this sort as any changes, will require only submitting the jcl.

Answer / sudheern

There are 2 types of sort in cobol.
1. Bubble sort
2. Shuttle sort

Answer / srinivas enumula

There are two types of sorts
1)Internal sort--which will be performed by cobol SORT statement
2)External sort-Which will be performed by JCL SORT utility

Answer / panu

the no.of types of sorting in cobol or in jcl? i want the
clarification please.
in jcl there are 9 types but in cobol i don't know.any
body known pls tell me.

in cobol i have one file it contains records like 10,4,23,98,7,90..... total records 100. iwant 10 to 20 in reverse order in cobol environ ment any one please give the answer......

2 Answers   IBM,

Write a program to concert an Indexed file into Sequential file?

1 Answers   Covansys,

if a dataset is already created with fixed length but after that i want to change fixed length to variable length then how is it possible

3 Answers   IBM,

whats the disadvantage of search all over search?

4 Answers   Patni, TCS,

I have a PS file and I would like to manually insert the binary values (like a COMP format) into the file. How can i do that? the way do in COMP-3 format.. suppose i want to insert -12345 in to file in comp-3 format. simply we can open a file in edit mode and do HEX-ON and insert the value . SEE BELOW-- 135 24D in 3 bytes - this will be COMP-3 presenatation of -12345.

1 Answers  

what are the error codes in cobol, db2, cics, vsam , and jcl

2 Answers   TetraSoft,

If A>B next sentence end-if display 1 display 2. display 3. If a>b, it will display only 3.(the next sentence, ie., after fullstop/period) ____________________________________ if a>b continue end-if display 1 display 2. display 3. If a>b, it Will display 1 2 3 (the next statement) ____________________________________ if a>b continue display 1 end-if display 2 display 3. display 4. If a>b, Will it display 2 3 4 (or) 1 2 3 4 ?

8 Answers   UST,

01 var1 pic s9(9)v99. 01 var2 pic x(30). procedure division. move 12345.99 to var1. move12345.99 to var2. display var1. display var2. what is the output?

2 Answers   IBM,

What do you do to resolve SOC-7 error?

2 Answers   Sun Life, Wipro,

how to resolve the file status 47.......

1 Answers   MMM,

Consider the following: 77 A PIC 9(10) 77 B PIC 9(10) 77 C PIC 9(19) MULTIPLY AB BY B GIVING C Which of the following is true ? (a) The execution of the above may result in size error. (b) The execution of the above will result in size error. (c) The definition of C is invalid resulting in compilation error. (d) No error will be thee and the program would proceed correctly.

4 Answers   TCS,

How can i write a comp-3 variable into a sequential file should i declara the field in the file description as comp- 3?

1 Answers