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In EBCDIC, how would the number 1234 be stored?

TCS,

2 10343

What are VS COBOL 11 special features?

1 5130

What are options have been removed in COBOL 11?

1 3931

What is the reference modification.

2 10794

How would the number +1234 be stored if a PIC clause of PICTUREs9(4) comp-3 were used?

6 15992

What is an index for tables?

2 6475

What is a subscript ?

3 7339

What is Alternate Index ? How is it different from regular index ?

2 14781

What is CALL statement in COBOL?

4 16978

When can the USING phrase be included in the call statement ?

2 6660

What does the initialize statement do ?

2 7110

What are the two search techniques ?

iGate,

2 9933

consider the following piece of code 01 GROSS-PAY 05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5) 05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3) if BASIC-PAY has a value 1000 and ALLOWENCES has a value of 250,what will be displayed by the statement DISPLAY GROSS-PAY a.1250 b.01000250 c.01250 d.1.250

TCS,

3 8696

consider two data items 77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 23.75 77 W-B PIC ZZ9V99 VLAUE 123.45 after the statement MOVE W-A TO W-B what will be W-B's value? a.123.75 b.b23.75 (where b indicates space) c.023.75 d.invalid move

TCS,

5 12408

what is the result of the following? DIVIDE A INTO B GIVING C. a.C=A/B b.the reminder of B/A is stored in C c.C=B/A d.the reminder of A/B is stored in C

TCS,

3 14252

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Hi pls anybody tell me about " ANALYSIS DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND ESTIMATION OF TASK " (in real time project)."I want to update a sequential file in my project" for that purpose i need both structures i mean analysis document and estimation of task.

2085

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

2102

I have File 1 occurs 5 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE and MECH). I have File 2 occurs 10 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE,CIVIL,CHEMICAL and MECH). In FIle 1 and FIle 2 , for matching Employee-DEPT (Only MECH) , we need to move entire records from file1 to file 2. We should not use 2D array. Your help is needed here.

1512

What is cobol?

1202

Is it possible that the redefines clause has different picture clauses compared to the one it redefined?

1110

What is length is cobol?

1064

What are different data types in cobol?

1233

What is a report item?

1097

I have program P1 which calls file F1 which has 100 records and following structure 001 .................. 002 .................. 003 .................. 098 .................... 099 ................... 100 .................... Now I want to read these files and write these records in file F2 in following manner. 001 ...... 051 ..... 002 ...... 052 ..... 003 ...... 053 ..... .......... ....... .......... ....... .......... ....... 048 ........ 098 ...... 049 .......... 099 ....... 050 .... 100 ......

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input= ,,,, mainframe training ,,, hyderabad .... location.... output1=$ mainframe training in hyderabad location$ output2=**** mainframe training in hyderabad location ****. In this pgn when we give input considering the spaces the output is displayed in this format.Like in the place of ,,,, $ should be displayed likewise.So please helpmeout.

2165

What is amode(31)

1113

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1135

What is inspect in cobol ?

1245

Describe the cobol database components?

1131

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?

1267

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