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Suppose if there are a set of statements and each has a word “value” in it, if I want to display all these statements so that the word “value” is aligned, then how do I code this in rexx?

1024

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

1358

What are the different types of condition in cobol and write their forms.

1166

What rules are followed by the search verb.

1202

What are the rules of the move verb?

1325

Write a program to enter and display the names of students in a class using the occurs clause.

1264

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1197

Explain the configuration section of a cobol program with examples of syntax.

1268

Write a program to explain size error.

1242

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

1255

explain sorting techniques in cobol program?

1249

Explain about different table spaces.

1157

Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

1149

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

1346

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

1277

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Name and explain the type of locks?

1027

We can use PASS with permanent datasets also. THEN Which is the condition in which we may use PASS (instead of KEEP) with permanent data sets, while there is no need to specify UNIT and VOL for them like temporary data sets (in cas we use KEEP for permanent data sets) ?

2470

What is release/acquire in bind?

1165

what sorting order does search all have?

1069

which are the relational operators in rpg?

1177

What is Cataloged Procedures?

1215

what happens in execution stage in job processing?

1201

how can we define a gdg?

1015

How to Get Information About the Tables?

1752

Define cics interface block?

1045

What is mainframe testing?

1173

what is the function of cpysplf command?

1789

Define communication area?

1056

How do I change the column size in db2?

1213

what are the different types of data areas?

1833

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