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why should we bind the DB2 program . What if we did not BIND a BD2 program ??

9 36039

My DB2 program first read the data from a file and then it look into a table with the data it got from the file.If we did not bind the program , should the file read before SQL execution be success??

Xansa,

2 6087

what is copy pending and check pending ?

Xansa,

1 10622

what needs to be done if a table is in copy pending / check pending status?

Xansa,

5 22997

what is check point and restart Logic ? why do we go for that ??

CGI, UST, Xansa,

2 27585

I HAVE 2 TABLES ONE IS EMP_TABLE AND ANOTHER DEPT_TABLE.EMP_TABLE CONTAINS NAME,DEPTNO,DEPTNAME,LOCATION AND DEPT_TABLE CONTAINS DEPTNO,DOJ(DATE OF JOINING).I WANT TO DISPLAY NAME,DEPTNAME,DOJ AND WHO ARE JOINED BETWEN 01- JAN-2007 TO 01-JAN-2008?

Perot Systems,

6 11318

What are the differences bitween cobol and cobol-2?

Wipro,

1 8429

Program A calls program B. Will the working storage variables declared in program B be initialized every time it is called by program A or will the values be retained until the end of program A?

7 21285

if i have three programs progA,progB and progC .now i call progB from progA. but the progB does not exist . now i want to call progC instead of starting dump. how can we achieve this.

Four soft,

10 20258

wat is the difference between array and multiple occurence data structure?

Four soft,

4 26863

wat is scan and check ? give me real time scenarios where we used these keywords in ur projects?

Four soft,

2 11898

wat is the difference between dataarea and data queue?

Airtel, Four soft, Shahi Exports,

5 30466

wat is meant by hidden field , why it is used?

Four soft,

4 20134

i'm working on progA , in that program i want to see the userids of the users who work on this program?

Four soft,

10 17356

I have a source program compiled with Cobol-2. The output file has a record length of 100 defined in the program but a record of 60 bytes getting written into it. i.e. The rest of 40 bytes I am not Writing anything. But it by default puts some values into the last 40 bytes. However it does not impact anything. But when Compiled the module with Enterprise Cobol the last 40 bytes were spaces as fillers. Can anyone explain?

Cognizant,

5 16897

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Tandem COBOL Interview questions (on TACL,SCOBOL,ENSCRIBE,PATHWAY0

23641

Explain acbgen process?

1101

What is the difference between non-join logical files and join logical files?

1122

what is rpg ?

1647

Hi, i would like to start a new carrier in DB2 DBA.Which and what all step should i have to take..?

3157

What is the tcp in the cisc?

1115

What language is db2 written in?

1049

What is a bind card?

1216

What is a set in idms?

840

What are 77 levels used for?

1108

Explain how are you going to remove duplicates from the file that is being read?

1007

ther r 2 tables OTTABLE & SALTABLE, add the otamt from OTTABLE to empsal of SALTABLE if eid is matched else add the unmatched from OTTABLE to SALTABLE

2070

how do you intitiate another transaction?

1173

How to write a IDMS code to find whose employee last name is starting with J and first name starts with H?

1351

How do you pull up a query which was previously saved in qmf?

1151

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