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consider the fallowing 77 stat pic 9. 88 male value 1,2,3. 88 female value 4 through7. what will be the value of stat a) set male to true. b) set female to true.

5 7584

what will be the output when a)pic 9(6)value 000178 is moved to pic ***,***. b)pic 9(5) value 57397 is moved to pic $$,$$9.

5 7172

I have 15 flat files. each record in the files have the monthly salary for 12 months with the employee number. Now I want to concatenate the 15 files such that for the employee numbers that are common the o/p file should have only one record and the salaries should be concatenated to that record. How can we do it with JCL?

1 4942

Is it possible start a transaction CICS from job Batch? How do it?

CSC,

5 15846

How do you find which GDG is using which dataset?

Patni,

3 9109

What is Uncatalog dataset? How can we access/use them?

1 25020

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO A FILE IF DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE)

ADP,

8 50886

in cobol i have one file it contains records like 10,4,23,98,7,90..... total records 100. iwant 10 to 20 in reverse order in cobol environ ment any one please give the answer......

IBM,

2 6826

how many divisions are there in cobol

ADP,

3 8643

how many bytes does s9(7)COMP-3 field occupies?

ADP,

6 26324

The below is the declaration for a variable ws 01 ws pic 9(3). if you want to insert space how will you do that. in which level u should do it

ADP,

3 7536

how will u retreive value from a table.write it with syntex. 01 ws-table 05 ws-table1 occurs 10 times. 05 ws-table2 occurs 10 times. the above is 2 dimensional array..how will u retrieve 1st element of an array

ADP,

3 8172

wt will happen to the step of a job if u code COND=ONLY

ADP,

5 9701

If your job fails at particular step then what would be the return code for next steps

ADP,

3 8488

what is the function of iebcompr?....is it compare record length or characteristics of a dataset?...pls explain with examples.......

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Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Explain the processing modes available in ims db?

3684

Mention some fields that are a part of sqlca.

1109

What are some of the cics commands associated with interval control?

1104

What is the place for VSAM KSDS?

1165

if you wish to use the rewrite command how must the vsam file be opened?

1215

run jcl for cobol+db2 pgm?.. //jobcard //step001 exec pgm=ikjeft01 //systin dd * DSNSYSTEM(--------) RUN PROGRAM(MYPGMNAME) PLAN(-----), LIB(-------), PARMS(------) /* WHAT WILL U GIVE INSIDE THE BRACKETS... WHAT IS PLAN,PACKAGE,BIND?..PLAN N PACAKGES ARE GENERATED BY ?...

4383

What is NOTCAT ?

1384

Brief description of inline procedure of jcl.

1333

what is the sequence when using cursor?

1281

can I port my existing applications from the mainframe or os/2? Will there be extensive changes required to do this?

1041

What is the contrast between delimited by space and delimited by size?

1023

Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

1344

what do you mean by an input subfile, what are the keywords required?

1314

write an RPG program to calculate the marks of 5 students (A,B, C, D, E)in 3 different subjects (eng, math, sci) an display on the screen

1365

Explain the input procedure?

1017

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