Answer / vinod

working storage copy book is temporal feilds and assign them
in dynamically on execution and where as linkage storage
copy book is to store permanent memory to related called sub
programs at its assigns the feild statically on before
passing the main program.

Answer / ssampath

working storage is local and linkage is global

Answer / nag(igate)

The working storage fields are used for the program to run
first time, whereas the Linkage section fields are used to
run the program more than once.

Answer / karthik

Working storage copybook will get expanded during
compilation whereas linkage section copy book will get
expanded during translation. This is with respect to cics-
cobol program.  The copybook EIBBlock gets included while
translation

Answer / guest

Those data's that are declared in the WS-Section in main
program should be declared in the linkage section in the sub
or called program.

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?

3 Answers   Xansa,

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I have one column say 'X' defined as VARCHAR Can anyone tell me What are the different ways to update this column thru COBOL-DB2 program?

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if someone is using my file,how can i find which user id is using?

4 Answers  

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Write a program to concert an Indexed file into Sequential file?

1 Answers   Covansys,

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Write a program that uses move corresponding.

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what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

1 Answers   HSBC,

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Explain how you can characterize tables in cobol?

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WE HAVE 2 FILES IN COBOL. ONE IS FIXED LENGTH RECORDS ANOTHER ONE IS VARIABLE LENGTH. IF I DECLEAR LRECL OF FIXED ONE AS 80 AND 2ND RECORD AS 132. WHAT WE NEED TO DECLEAR LRECL FOR THOSE 2 FILES IN JCL?

4 Answers   iGate,

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I try to use some column names in my cobol progorm but these column not in db2 table ..when do i get error ..while bind time or runtime?

2 Answers  

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What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 Answers  

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What is the use of LINKAGE SECTION?

1 Answers  

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In EBCDIC, how would the number 1234 be stored?

2 Answers   TCS,

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