Can printer files (having 133 characters) be of variable
length?

Answer Posted / amy

The printer file is defined as FBA(Fixed block attribute)
with a length of 133 where the first byte contains the
printer carriage control characters and rest 132 contains
printable characters.
It can't be of variable length.

Is This Answer Correct ?    12 Yes 0 No



Post New Answer       View All Answers


Please Help Members By Posting Answers For Below Questions

Can we change the password using ALTER? anyone tried and changed?

1549


Name the sections present in data division.

701


Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

712


How do you get the data to code the BMS macro?

1476


How to fetch 1000 error records from VSAM file(Eg: 1000000 records present) while getting SOC7 abend ?

1949






What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

678


what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

21570


What is the default value(s) for an initialize? What keyword will allow for an override of the default?

661


Is it possible that the redefines clause has different picture clauses compared to the one it redefined?

678


EXPLAIN MAIN FRAME TESTING PROCESS...HOW TO FIX THE MAINFRAME BUGS?

2060


How do you reference the following file formats from cobol programs?

696


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

700


1.Is it possible to move the data from 99.99 to 99v99? 2.What is the CICS-vsam Compilation process? 3.In My GDG 5 generation will be there GDG3 got an abend what will happen? 4.In my GDG first generation is +1 And I want to add the new generation what will happen previous generation? 5.How can you give the PIC clause below conditions A). s9 (reddy), B). s9 (5) occurs 5 times? 6.How override the proc from a particular step? and what is symbolic and override Procs?

5379


What are the different data types in cobol?

799


What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol programming?

711