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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 7349

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 6974

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 4810

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

CSC,

5 15560

How do you find which GDG is using which dataset?

Patni,

3 8956

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

1 24936

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

ADP,

8 50497

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 6688

how many divisions are there in cobol

ADP,

3 8469

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

ADP,

6 26040

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 7374

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 7989

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

ADP,

5 9484

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

ADP,

3 8328

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

2 10656

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

what are the various types of device files?

1686

What is load replace in db2?

995

What Is Default Data Type (if You Define Decimals '0') In Physical File?

1857

In sms datasets, what is the function of the dd avgrec keyword?

1097

What is rmode(24)

1147

How do you simulate the explain of an embedded sql statement in spufi/qmf?

1092

What is the difference between fixed length and variable length records?

876

how do u compile rpgle program?

1119

if we tried to move year part of *iso date into a field of length 3, what will happen ?

1297

Define temporary storage?

1065

Define cebr?

1108

Explain dbdgen process?

1106

What is 'mounting' of volumes ? Is there anything that a programmer can do in it ? How to find currently mounted volume ?

2567

What is the function of the dd avgrec keyword in sms datasets?

1343

Define the term transaction routing?

1173

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