Answer Posted / subbu

We can eliminate the duplicates using sort.

please find the control card for sort.

sort fields = (starting position of field,length of the
field,data type,ascending or descending order)

sum fields=none

Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

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

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What is inspect in cobol ?

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What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

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what is s000 u4087 error? please give the all error codes in cobol,jcl.

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Difference between array and sub-script ?

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What is the utilization of copybook in cobol? Could we utilize a similar copybook?

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How do you reference the fixed block file formats from cobol programs

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I need to compare 3 variables(dates) and do some processing based on the earliest date. There could be more then 1 date record in any of the 3 fields. What is the best way to code this?

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Have you used comp and comp-3 in your project? And how?

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What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

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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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How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the ksds file records into cobol program?

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Mention the guidelines to write a structured cobol program?

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What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

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