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As you said giving IDENTIFICATION DIVISION & PROGRAM-ID is
mandatory in a normal cobol program. This is important for
a program to get compiled. But if you try executing the
program with these two statements alone, you will get SOC4
abend as your program tries to access a storage location to
which it was not authorized.

For a program to run successfully, all the 4 divisions and
the program-id paragraph are mandatory.

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99 in COBOL?

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I have File 1 occurs 5 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE and MECH). I have File 2 occurs 10 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE,CIVIL,CHEMICAL and MECH). In FIle 1 and FIle 2 , for matching Employee-DEPT (Only MECH) , we need to move entire records from file1 to file 2. We should not use 2D array. Your help is needed here.

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What is the Purpose of POINTER Phrase in STRING command in COBOL?

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) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

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What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

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how do you reference the esds vsam file formats from cobol programs

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How do define dynamic array in cobol. how do you define single dimensional array and multidimensional array in your cobol?

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i need a small 3d program using inline and outline.

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

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How to traceback if I am getting SOC7 or SOC4 abend? List down the steps

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What is the difference between Call and a Link?

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What are the different rules of SORT operation?

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What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?

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how do you reference the ksds vsam file formats from cobol programs

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Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

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