01 a pic 9(3) value is 123
01 b pic 9(6)
move a to b

wht will be the value ? and

01 a pic x(6) value is abc
01 b pic x(3)
move a to b

wht will be the value ?

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01 a pic 9(3) value is 123 01 b pic 9(6) move a to b wht will be the value ? and 01 a pic x..

Answer / arthi

1.
000123

2.
abc

Ravi, I guess you didnt mean the '-' as a minus sign in front of 000123, and abc. your answer is not clear enough.

Is This Answer Correct ?    14 Yes 0 No

01 a pic 9(3) value is 123 01 b pic 9(6) move a to b wht will be the value ? and 01 a pic x..

Answer / kiran

Result

000123
abc

no "-" sign will come bcoze we didnt give like this

01 a pic s9(3) value is 123
01 b pic s9(6)
move a to b

wht will be the value ? and

01 a pic x(6) value is abc
01 b pic x(3)
move a to b

Is This Answer Correct ?    3 Yes 0 No

01 a pic 9(3) value is 123 01 b pic 9(6) move a to b wht will be the value ? and 01 a pic x..

Answer / ravi

Answer to first question is -000123
and answer to second question is -abc

Is This Answer Correct ?    6 Yes 4 No

01 a pic 9(3) value is 123 01 b pic 9(6) move a to b wht will be the value ? and 01 a pic x..

Answer / pradip

1.
000123

2.
abc---

Well arthi, here - stands for blank space, correct me if am
wrong

Is This Answer Correct ?    3 Yes 2 No

01 a pic 9(3) value is 123 01 b pic 9(6) move a to b wht will be the value ? and 01 a pic x..

Answer / praveen

Arati was correct. if you move x(6) varibale to x(3) there
will not be any blank spaces.

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 0 No

01 a pic 9(3) value is 123 01 b pic 9(6) move a to b wht will be the value ? and 01 a pic x..

Answer / cj

Numeric items are moved right to left (before the decimal
point) and left to right (after the decimal point) from
source item to the destination item.

So the answer for the first move=> Variable b will have
value 000123 in it. (In the question value 123 should be
within quotes)

Alphanumeric (as well as alphabetic) items are moved left to
right from source item to destination item.

So the answer for the second move=> Variable b will have abc
stored in it. (In the question value abc should be within
quotes)

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 0 No

01 a pic 9(3) value is 123 01 b pic 9(6) move a to b wht will be the value ? and 01 a pic x..

Answer / chowdary

after executing this program output will be

b value is 000123
and
b value is abc
there is no blanks after abc in b, because we have taken
its length as 3 in pic clause.

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 0 No

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