How to execute a set of JCL statements from a COBOL program?

2 Answers   Patni, Syntel,

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what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

1 Answers   HCL,

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What is diff betn PS and ESDS file? What is the diffrent compiler options in cobol and there discription? What is retrive nth maximum salary from salary DB2 table. Can we redefine COM-3 variable with varchar variable?

4 Answers  

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What care has to be taken to force program to execute above 16 Meg line?

1 Answers  

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i have two file one is ksds another one is esds i want store matching records in flat file how to you matching.

2 Answers   Wipro,

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How can we find that module can be called – whether DYNAMICALLY or STATICALLY?

0 Answers  

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I have two questions here. 1. How to read a flat file in reverse order? 2. How to read a VSAM KSDS file in reverse order? In both the cases we donot know the total number of records.

1 Answers   L&T,

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Following questions were asked in Capegemini on 8th sep,2012 mainframe test 1.)Condition code for dul recors in VSAM- 2.) Is NULL or =NULL in Select statement 3.)max size of CI 4.)What happens after CI is full 5.)Ques on COND parameter 6.)which among following can not be rolled back a)delete table b.)droptable c)Update d.)insert 7.)groupby and orderby sql querries 8.)Max extents in VSAM file 9.)quesn on DPRTY=(1,10) 10.)range of condition codes in COBOL 11.)occurs clase can not be used at which level? 12.)delimiter in jcl 13.)sort card for file in PGM=SORT 14.)PIC(6) value 120056 possible? 15)question on BLKSIZE Is (20,20) and (20,10) possible? 16.)number of bytes in RDF 17.)Can we use index in WS-section or LK-section 18.)Verify command in IDCAMS used for? 19.)question on Alternate Index 20.)Return code of file attribute mismatch 21.)In which format COBOL variables stored? 22.)what is Alternate of HANDLE? 23.)can SUM,AVG,MIN,ROUND used in numeric and char variable data types? 24.)What is the datatype of FILE STATUS codes in WS-section?

2 Answers   Cap Gemini,

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What will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in a stand alone COBOL program ?

8 Answers   Arigo Infotech, IBM,

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What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99?

7 Answers  

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Can we dynamically increase the size of occurs clause? i.e In case I an not sure of the size of array and want to increase the size at run time.If yes , how?

1 Answers  

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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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