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| What are the different data types available in COBOL? | | 1 |
| consider the following piece of code
01 GROSS-PAY
05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5)
05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3)
if BASIC-PAY has a value 1000 and ALLOWENCES has a value
of 250,what will be
displayed by the statement
DISPLAY GROSS-PAY
a.1250
b.01000250
c.01250
d.1.250
| TCS | 3 |
| Explain about Redefines cluse? | | 3 |
| What does the initialize statement do ? | | 2 |
| How to covert given string into ASCII value in COBOL/MF
COBOL | IBM | 3 |
| 01 b pic +9(4)
How many bytes it will take for storage???
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| What is COMP-1? COMP-2? | CitiGroup | 1 |
| What is the difference between Perform para and perform
asaection in cobol? | TCS | 2 |
| 1)what is the maximum limit for occurs?
Eg: 01 A PIC X(10) OCCURS N TIME.
What is the max value for N? | Wipro | 8 |
| How can you submit a job from COBOL programs? | ITC-Infotech | 2 |
| What is mean by maxcc | Syntel | 4 |
| What is report-item? | | 1 |
| What is the difference between a subscript and an index in
a table definition? | | 1 |
| What will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in
a stand-alone COBOL program i.e. a program which is not
calling any other program ? | | 1 |
| Difference between next and continue clause | Kanbay | 2 |
| What is SDSF? | | 6 |
| How many maximum number of procedures can we write in one
COBOL program? | | 2 |
| given the following piece of code:
CALL SUB-PGM USING A, B, C.
CALL SUB-PGM USING A, C, C.
(a) Both CALL statements will always produce same result.
(d) Both CALL statements may produce different result.
(c) Compile-time error because SUB-PGM is a dataname.
(d) Compile-time error because A, B, C are used twice.
| TCS | 1 |
| How may divisions are there in JCL-COBOL? | IBM | 2 |
| what is Pic 9v99 Indicates? | | 1 |
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