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COBOL is developed and deployed in 1985. It runs in 24 bit addressing mode. But VS COBOL - II runs in 31 bit addressing mode.

1)what is the maximum limit for occurs? Eg: 01 A PIC X(10) OCCURS N TIME. What is the max value for N?

11 Answers   Wipro,

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Program A calls program B. Will the working storage variables declared in program B be initialized every time it is called by program A or will the values be retained until the end of program A?

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What is the meaning of 'TALLING' verb in cobol?

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Can we redefine the field of x(200) to less than 200?

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What are the various section in data division and briefly explain them.

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. How do we cast a variable in COBOL

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What is level 66 used for ?

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WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 VAR1 COMP-2 VALUE 0. PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE 10.2115 TO VAR1. DISPLAY 'VAR1 =' VAR1. GOBACK. 10.2115 is stored as .10211499999999996E 02 in OS VS Cobol 10.2115 is stored as .10211500000000000E 02 in ecobol. Any reason why?

3 Answers   TCS,

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What are the rules of the move verb?

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hai friends ,i have HSBc exam on this sunday,my platform is Mainframe,i have 1 year exp,pls any one send me placement papers of Hsbc and technical questions on mainframe

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what is the minimum number of lines a Cobol program should have to successfully compile and run

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TYPES OF SORTINGS. which is more prefarable.

2 Answers   Syntel, TCS,

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