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How can a job send a status message to a tso user at the completion of a job?

1 2165

a dd statement has 2 types of parameters. Name them?

1135

What parameter directs the output of the job log dataset?

1280

What is the function of dd name parameter with a 2 part structure; audit.report?

1243

How can return codes be tested before execution of a job step?

1482

Can an individual step be restricted from using all the jobs allowed cpu time?

1556

When output dataset space is required, what quantity categories are used?

1364

What parameter of the job statement is used to limit the cpu time consumed by the job?

1279

How can an in-stream dataset be terminated?

1342

What is the purpose of the dd keylen parameter?

1219

What is the purpose of dd?

1239

What statement marks the end of an in-stream or catalogued procedure?

1 1977

What parameters can be used to limit the number of records written to a sysout dataset?

1 1841

How can the submitting users racf authority be overridden in a job stream?

1265

Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

1117

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How do you eliminate the duplicates?

919

What are storage attributes of records?

909

what are the types of abends that occur on job failure? And explain the possible causes of these

1624

what do you mean by a vsam slot?

1004

What are fset, frset?

1012

can error messages as a result of a comp, range or values keyword be overridden?

1914

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1329

What is the use of mdt (modified data tag)?

1052

What is the difference between Structured COBOL Programming and Object Oriented COBOL programming?

1122

what is a composite key?

1677

Can one database have multiple instances?

1054

How Chain operation copies the record's data to the input buffer for the program?

1606

what is eib, how is can be used?

1108

Are scope terminators compulsory? If they are, when?

959

How to check table size in db2 sap?

1040

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