what is the difference between external and global variables?

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01 NAME1 PIC X(13) VALUE "COBOL PROGRAMMING". 01 NAME2 PIC X(13). now I want to display the value of NAME1 in reverse order i.e value should be displayed as "GNIMMARGORP LOBOC" HOW can I do that ??? please let me know if any one knows it.

11 Answers   FirstApex, NIIT,

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i have two file, each file having : file1 is having 2 fields field1 field2 file2 is having 3 fields field1 field2 field3 my req is to make it one file like: field1 field2 field1 field2 field3 if anyone know please send me syntax, i tried this with DFSORT but could not succeed.

9 Answers   Syntel,

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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

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For rewrite, why is it mandatory that file needs to be opened?

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What is the Linkage section? What is the Use and Why the parm length use alway "PARM-LENGTH PIC S9(4) or PIC S9 (4) COMP." any reason?.Please let me know any one... Cheers,Prasad

8 Answers   Syntel,

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What is binary search?

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How to change size of Initial number of records to *NOMAX for ALL PF files from perticular library, how can I do that

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What are ISOLATION LEVELS? Where do we need to specify them?

3 Answers   EXL,

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How many divisions we have in Cobol ?

4 Answers   Wipro,

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What is the difference between next sentence and continue in cobol programing language?

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how can i see junk values in dclgen or in hostvariable of comp ?

0 Answers   DELL,

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