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What are the recoverable cics resources?

1014

How to get the cursor position when we receive a map?

1080

Db2 what is the difference between a package and a plan. How does one bind 2 versions of a cics transaction with the same module name in two different cicsregions that share the same db2 subsystem?

1128

What is the difference between a return with transid and xctl?

1066

How many ways are there for initiating a transaction?

1050

How to establish dynamic cursor position on a map?

1075

Kindly specify the pic clause for the hhmmss type of data fields?

1071

What are fset, frset?

1012

What does the 'cebr:cics' transactions do?

1029

Kindly specify the pic clause for the any bll cell type of data fields?

1221

Code the related portions of cics/cobol-i programs to gain addressability to twa area assigned to a particular task. Assme that the size of twa area is 300bytes. What are the advantages if cobol-ii is used in the place of cobol?

1141

What is the comaera (communication area)?

1106

What dd statement is used to supply the name of a dataset?

1386

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

1097

How can unused space allocation be returned to the system when a dataset is closed?

1496

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is meant by an attribute byte?

1048

What are the types of perform?

1044

Explain the maps in cics?

1176

what is the maximum number of subroutines allowed in rpg?

1779

Service Program : S1 Modules in S1 : M1 M1 having two procedures : ADD, SUB Current Binder Language STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*CURRENT) EXPORT SYMBOL("ADD") EXPORT SYMBOL("SUB") ENDPGMEXP Doubt: I need to add one new Module to the Service Program M2 having one procedure ‘MULT’ How to add this new module to the service program S1 ? If I need to recreate the service program again, Do I need to mention the Module M1 again while recreating along with new Module M2? There is no Binding Directory. Binder language structure will be like this STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*CURRENT) EXPORT SYMBOL("ADD") EXPORT SYMBOL("SUB") EXPORT SYMBOL("MULT") ENDPGMEXP STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*PREVIOUS) EXPORT SYMBOL("ADD") EXPORT SYMBOL("SUB") ENDPGMEXP

2374

What guidelines should be followed to write a structured cobol prgm?

1148

How to create db2 table in mainframe?

1154

What does sqlcabc has?

1054

What is catelog procedure and how many catelog procedure to use in one job?

8694

How to know the particular record in pf with out reading?

1067

What is db2 look?

1024

how to develop some simple graphs (bar charts) using just html?

1065

how does the runqry show the output?

1419

before altering a table is it necessary to lock ? if lock what is it ? how to do ? ifi want to lock a table what is that command ?

2180

Mention the location where the output received from explain statement is stored.

1127

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