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| What is IMPACT analysis? | IBM | 1 |
| 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 | iNautix | 2 |
| what are the control characters used in reports | | 1 |
| What is COMP SYNC? | | 2 |
| Can the OCCURS clause be at the 01 level? | | 1 |
| What is the meaning of 'Eject' verb in cobol?
| Wipro | 2 |
| what r the types of perform statement | | 2 |
| How many maximum number of procedures can we write in one
COBOL program? | | 3 |
| What are differences between Static Call and Dynamic Call? | IBM | 5 |
| consider the following piece of code
01 GROUP-ITEM
05 AMOUNT-1 PIC 99V9 USAGE COMP VALUE 50
05 AMOUNT-2 PIC 9(4)V99 USAGE COMP
MOVE ZERO TO GROUP-ITEM
ADD 50 TO AMOUNT-1
what will be the content of AMOUNT-1?
a.50
b.100
c.0
d.unpredictable
| TCS | 2 |
| Which of the following files can be OPENed in all the 4
modes? The four
modes are INPUT, I-O, OUTPUT and EXTEND.
(a) INDEXED
(b) RELATIVE
(c) SEQUENTIAL
(d) All of the above
| TCS | 5 |
| 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 |
| What COBOL construct is the COBOL II EVALUATE meant to
replace? | | 1 |
| i have two file one is ksds another one is esds i want store
matching records in flat file how to you matching. | Wipro | 1 |
| what is the difference between external and global
variables? | | 1 |
| The following entries appear in the WORKING-STORAGE SECTION:
01 DATE-TODAY.
05 YY PIC XX VALUE "90".
05 MM PIC XX VALUE "12".
05 DD PIC XX VALUE :31".
01 DATE-EDIT PIC XX/XX/XX.
MOVE DATE-TODAY TO DATE-EDIT.
(a) 901231
(b) 90/12/31
(c) 31/12/90
(d) 311290
| TCS | 3 |
| Can we MOVE X(9) to 9(9) OR 9(9) to X(9)? If yes what are
the ways for doing this? | T-systems | 7 |
| consider the following PROCEDURE DIVISION entry
OPEN EXTEND IN-FILE
identify the correct statement
a.organization of IN-FILE is sequential and records can
be added in the
beginning
b.organization of IN-FILE is sequential and records can
be added in the
end
c.organization of IN-FILE is indexed and records can be
added in the
beginning
d.organization of IN-FILE is indexed and records can be
added in the end
| TCS | 1 |
| Have you code any new programs in COBOL ? What is the
functionality of the programs? | Xansa | 2 |
| Is this allowed?
01 WS-TABLE.
03 FILLER-X PIC X(5) VALUE 'AAAAA'.
03 WS-EX REDEFINES FILLER-X OCCURS 5 TIMES PIC X(1).
can redefines clause be used with occurs clause? | | 2 |
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