What happens in the background of spool when we submit a job for compilation and execution... This is a recent question in ibm...Kindly help me.....

3 Answers   IBM,

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how to know that the file has 300 records how to acess it?

0 Answers   Hewitt, TCS,

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what is the advantage of using redefines instead of delaring the variables ?

5 Answers   HCL,

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If a sub program is called from mainprogram.I have opened cursor in main program and Fetch the result in subprogram ,Is it possible ?If yes please tell me the reason.

1 Answers  

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When and how can we use index & subscript ?

2 Answers  

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If we put three reads in COBOL in the same para one after the other, to read a PS file,will it read the same record thrice or it will read three records sequentially? For example : Input File 01 02 03 Para 900 Read infile Display Infile rec Read infile Display infile rec Read infile Display infile rec. What will be the output?

2 Answers  

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COMPUTE X = A * B - C * D and COMPUTE X = (A * B) - (C * D) (a) Are not the same (b) Are same (c) Syntactically wrong (d) Will yield a run time error

1 Answers   TCS,

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I have dataset DS1 which has records say 1 2 3 4 5 ... ... etc And also I have second dataset DS2 whcih has records 1 3 4 5 6 8 .. ... Both the files are sorted and now I want to compare these files and write it into the third files if the records are matching.

4 Answers   FIS, Wipro,

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How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

5 Answers   Hexaware,

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Can we move X(9) to 9(9). If yes what are the ways for doing this?

3 Answers  

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how we can reverse the string in the cobol for example satheesh can be reveresed as hseehtas

3 Answers   IBM,

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what is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any)?

0 Answers  

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