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How to use the same cobol program in Batch and CICS onlines ? Please expalin with an example. Thanks in advance.

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In CICS/VSAM every file that is accessed should be defined in FCT. we have CICS READ, WRITE, BROWSE commands for VSAM files. How does it work with DB2 tables. It know it has to do with the plan. Please expain with examples.

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01 MOVE 10 TO N 05 PERFOM PARA1 TIMES STOP RUN WAT WILL HAPPEN?? WILL IT RUN INFINITELY OR AN ERROR WIL BE THER BECAUSE NO OF TIMES IS NOT GIVEN??

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RENAME clause takes new SPACE in memory.TRUE or FALSE? a)TRUE 2)FALSE

TCS,

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level number 77 is used to define a)group data b)elementary data c)redefine d)none

TCS,

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How to read a record from bottom of a file which is indexed by 'A'.

Oracle,

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a. Can the OPTIONAL clause in COBOL only be coded for input files? b. If it is coded for files opened in OUTPUT, I-O or EXTEND mode, will it give a compilation error? c. If there are no compilation errors and if such files are not coded in the JCL, will the OPEN statement run fine when these files are opened? d. How will a WRITE statement work for the above files?

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Can printer files (having 133 characters) be of variable length?

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Will the variable POS in the following code have a value of 2 or not? 01 POS PIC S9(4) COMP VALUE 2. 01 FIRST-NAME PIC X(10) VALUE 'ABC'. 01 LAST-NAME PIC X(10) VALUE 'XYZ'. 01 NAME PIC X(20) VALUE SPACES. STRING FIRST-NAME DELIMITED BY SPACES ' ' DELIMITED BY SIZE LAST-NAME DELIMITED BY SPACES INTO NAME WITH POINTER POS

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What is the difference between CALL BY VALUE and CALL BY CONTENT?

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is it possible to pass an SQL query inside a jcl which is inside a cobol program?

CTS,

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In a program, there are 2 sections defined say SECTION-A and SECTION-B. There is a paragraph say CALC-INT in both the sections. If this para has to be called directly for SECTION-A, then PERFORM CALC-INT will not work as it is present in both sections. How the PERFORM statement has to be coded here?

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Suppose a program has the following code. What will be the output? MAIN-PARA. DISPLAY 'MAIN-PARA' PERFORM SECTION-A. STOP RUN. SECTION-A. PARA-A1. DISPLAY 'SECTION A PARA A1'. PARA-A2. DISPLAY 'SECTION A PARA A2'.

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What will happen if a variable is declared as below.. Explain with an example? Working storage section:- 01 WS-VARX PIC X(10) VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJ'. 01 WS-VARN REDEFINES WS-VARX PIC 9(5) VALUE '12345'. What will happen I want Display WS-VARX and WS-VARN?

Xansa,

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Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

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How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the kids file records into your cobol program?

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What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

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How to fetch 1000 error records from VSAM file(Eg: 1000000 records present) while getting SOC7 abend ?

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What is an in line perform? When would you use it? Anything else you wish to say about it.

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

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What is the difference between perform … with test after and perform … with test before?

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how do you reference the fixed unblock file formats from cobol programs

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how to refer the data field?

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I have to write to a outfile where the number of records in that file should be the header of that file using IMS.. can anyone help me in this issue

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System Testing for Mainframe Developers What is System Testing? integration testing ? what's the procedure ..

2016

I have one ps file in which there are 3 fileds emp_no,emp_name and leave_app.this ps file information give the detail of employee which is going to apply for leave.suppose emp_no=113430,emp_name=ajay,leave_app=1 that means he is going to apply for 1 day leave.and accordingling the table in db2 will be updated means if he has that no of leave in his account then he will get dat leave and updated acc. in table(leave_balance=previous leave present in table-leave_app).Now i want to check whther the updated result is correct or not by comparing the two ps file using IEBCOMPARE or icetool so what is going to be the two ps file and how its is going to be compare.

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Describe the cobol database components?

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Why is it necessary that file needs to be opened in I-O mode for REWRITE?

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2 input fles: 2 flat files, with different number of records. both are having unique key for each record and already sorted in ascending order . match these files using unique key and in output only matching key value has to be written. please procide cobol logic

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