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i made it to stage 3 of an interview process wednessday they will quiz my knowledge again face to face for an analyst role recruiter said it will be based on Business requirements system is cobol and good ideas what they might ask etc

2599

which is better comp or comp-3 in terms of memory utilization?

6 18305

Can anybody tell me that why we use option(*nodebugio)in H- Spec?

3 25141

Move Zeroes to I move 5 to j perform para1 varying I from 10 by -2 until I = 0 display j. para1. Add 5 to j. What’ll be the value after execution of display stmt. A) 35 B) 40 C) 30 D) 25 please explain how?

5 10370

WE HAVE 5 DIFFERENT RECORDING MODE IN COBOL.FIXED, FIXEDBLOCK, VARIABLE, VARIABLEBLOCK AND UNDEFINED. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE AMONG ALL AND WHICH TYPE OF FORMAT SHOULD BE USED WHEN

Infosys,

3 36057

can anybody help me that what is the procedure of debugging the service program?

CSC,

3 10317

What techniques will be used to avoid deadlock??

IBM, SUN,

5 14431

we can code COPY DCLGEN or INCLUDE DCLGEN, At which stage of the precompilation , dclgen get expanded if we write 1) copy 2) include one question about dclgen.. Is it mandatory to use declare table in dclgen.. I think no...but it will be used by the precompiler to validate the table name,column name etc.., can one clear my doubt ..is it necessary to include declare table or not?

2 17999

we can use set true for condition names.. similarly can we code set to false in cobol pgm? will it work?

1 10723

01 a pic s9(5) value -12345, if we disply a , the sign will overpunched with last digit but i need to get the miuns sign in the result?

7 12120

01 b pic +9(4) How many bytes it will take for storage???

2 9185

One program calling 5 subprograms, its a cobol db2 program, after precompilation how many plans and packages will created?

3 18510

Is there any other debugging tool for expeditor?

2 10882

can u run online and batch at the same time?

IBM,

4 10602

How to rename one vsam file as well as it's index?

BEA,

4 27102

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

2002

Can we delete records from view?

972

Explain about different table spaces.

1114

Define a junction record in idms?

849

What guidelines should be followed to write a structured cobol prgm?

1154

Can you explain communication area?

1045

what are transient data sets defined to cics?

1180

What is the main function of key sequenced data set in vsam?

968

What is dbrm? What it contains? When it will be created?

1053

How to Clear a Query Using the RESET Command ?

1733

When we create a pf and did not fill up maint parameter, then by default which access path will the system take & why?

1100

Hi, While I am trying to produce a html report from SAS interactive screen, I am always getting an error. I have attached the result of interactive execution with this. Please help me on this. NOTE: All profile changes will be lost at the end of the session. 1 *libname ia 'U19K.CAPS.SAS'; 2 3 /*Data declaration*/ 4 data work.staff; 5 infile 'U19K.CAPS.SAS (RAWDATA1)'; 6 input LastName $ 1-10 FirstName $ 11- 20 7 JobTitle $ 21-23 Salary 24- 28 8 BirthDat $ 29-37 Gender $ 38 9 run; 10 11 /*Basic "format" statement*/ 12 /*assign range of values to a variable and use it*/ 13 /*'$' should be used for a alphanumeric manipulation*/ NOTE: The infile 'U19K.CAPS.SAS(RAWDATA1)' is: Dsname=U19K.CAPS.SAS (RAWDATA1), Unit=3390,Volume=XTD007,Disp=SHR,Blksize=6160, Lrecl=80,Recfm=FB NOTE: 20 records were read from the infile 'U19K.CAPS.SAS (RAWDATA1)'. NOTE: The data set WORK.STAFF has 20 observations and 7 variables. NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.01 CPU seconds and 7537K. NOTE: The address space has used a maximum of 3676K below the line and 15196K above the line. 14 proc format; 15 value Salrange low- 10000='Below' 16 10001- 20000='Medium' 17 20001- High='Above'; NOTE: Format SALRANGE has been output. 18 value $Gender F='Female' 19 M='Male'; NOTE: Format ÅGENDER has been output. 20 run; NOTE: The PROCEDURE FORMAT used 0.00 CPU seconds and 7523K. NOTE: The address space has used a maximum of 3676K below the line and 15196K above the line. 21 22 /*ODS-Output delivery system to create html file*/ 23 ods listing close; 24 ods html file='C:\Documents and Settings\u19k\Desktop\html1.html'; NOTE: Writing HTML Body file: C:\Documents and Settings\u19k\Desktop\html1.html ERROR: Invalid file, C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\U19K\DESKTOP\HTML1.HTML. WARNING: No body file. HTML output will not be created. 25 26 /*Basic "label" statement*/ 27 proc print data=work.staff split=''; 28 label LastName='Last Name' 29 FirstName='First Name' 30 JobTitle='Job Title' 31 Salary='Annual Salary'; 32 format Salary Salrange. Gender $Gender.; 33 var LastName FirstName JobTitle Salary Gender; 34 title 'Employee database'; 35 run; WARNING: No output destinations active. NOTE: The PROCEDURE PRINT used 0.00 CPU seconds and 10275K. NOTE: The address space has used a maximum of 3676K below the line and 15196K above the line. 36 37 /*ODS-html closing*/ 38 ods html close; 39 ods listing;

2792

What is scrollable cursor in db2?

1059

When do you specify the isolation level?

1040

What are literals?

1146

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