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Questions Answers Views Company eMail

is it possible to get -811 error when you use cursors. why?

IBM,

2 7105

DB2: A calls B once sucessfull and second time when it calls says curson is open why is it so?

IBM,

1 6098

can you use symbolic parameters in JOB?

IBM,

5 8017

in GDG: is it poosible to copy records from a file which utilizes some 100 cylinders to a gdg whose model is defined as trk(1,0) and also it possible to copy 100 bytes file to 80 bytes file?

IBM,

1 4818

How to solve S0C7 abend with out using DISPlay in 10 mins?

IBM,

1 7105

What is usage pointer in cobol?

IBM,

3 16378

Parm value passed is PARM=(10,20). how do code linkage section and how would you add these two passes values and show result in cobol program.

IBM,

3 8165

write a program to eliminate duplicate records in a input file and send them to output file.

IBM,

2 6465

wirte a pgm in using files in which we hav 10 ,20,30 40...100 records in inputfile and i want them to be send to outputfile in reverse order. PLZ HELP ME OUT .........THIS IS A RECENT QUESTION IN IGATE..

iGate,

5 9933

if a=b how the flow will complete??? perform test through test-exit. perform activa through activa-exit. test. if a=b then next sentence else move a to c. test-exit. exit. activa. -- -- activa-exit. exit.

IBM,

1 4539

how to resolve soc-7 ? please tell me

IBM,

3 8307

Have a join logical file with more than one members with different record formats. So how can we read the different members from this file and also how we can read the different record format from the join logical?

3 9690

What is the difference between Sysin,Sysout,Sysdbout and Sysudump?

3 15654

Could anyone clearly explain the diference between sub query and correlated sub query?

3 6006

Can we use MVC instruction to move pack field to pack field....which instruction you will use and why ?

Amdocs, IBM,

4 12416

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What do we mean by 'Virtual storage' for a dataset and for a JOBSTEP ? What is the significance of the following statement for a programmer 'Virtual storage results in program addresses being independent of the addresses that actually exist in a computer' ?

2026

what is term cua , saa?

1614

How can you count the number of rows from a table tab?

1091

what is full form for dds?

1204

i want to maintain uniqueness on pdf without make lf??????????

2158

What are packages in db2?

1023

which of the cl command can be used to determine which logical files are dependent on a specific file?

1093

What is a dbrm in db2?

1021

How do you concatenate the firstname and lastname from emp table to give a complete name?

1077

How converted the natural coding for adabas

3279

Define clustered index?

966

What do you mean by commit and rollback?

1043

what is *inzsr used for?

2329

how do I declare a table or array in rpg iv?

1180

list the sequence of steps used to achieve modiication in skip sequential mode?

1190

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