Answer / dinesh

COBOL is programming lang for mainframe. CICS is front end tool

Answer / karim

COBOL is programing language and cics is front end tool use
to create online process

Answer / raju

GIRISH I THINK THE QUESTION WOULD BE ...

WHAT IS THE CODING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NORMAL COBOL PROGRAM
AND CICS-COBOL PROGRAM ?

IF YES,

ANS)
1. IN BATCH (NORMAL COBOL) WE DECLARE THE FILES IN
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION WHERE AS IN ONLINE (CICS-COBOL) FCT
WILL BE USED.

2.IN BATCH WE USE ACCEPT & DISPLAY stmts ,in cics we use
SEND/RECEIVE commands.

3.in batch we use GO BACK,EXIT and STOP RUN, IN CICS RETURN
COMMAND TO INDICATE END OF THE PROGRAM.

Answer / babu

no file description in cics programs

Answer / sriharichallagundla

COBOL is programming lang for mainframe. CICS is front end tool

Answer / girish kumar

Im calling sub-program but sub-program is not available what will happen.

Answer / nag(igate)

i am few answers to Raju's answers....

1. The CICS commands should be coded in keyword-delimiter
i.e EXEC CICS ......END-EXEC. and the cobol not neccesary
to use keyword.

2. The Environment division is optional in CICS , while it
is mandatory in COBOl for decalring files

3. In CICS , we can test whether it is executed the program
first time or not. But in cobo, we cannot test it.

and they are many more.................

Answer / krishna chaitanya

Hi all

cobol is a high Level language . we can also call it as
programming lang .

CICS is a Language which is used to Develop the Screens .
its just like Scripting lang .

Ex : HTML

Its a lang which deals with assembler level Macros like
DFhmdf,dfhmdi,dfhmsd , dfhpct ........

Cics is a core for mainframes

What is COMP-1? COMP-2?

4 Answers   CitiGroup,

what if any ,is the syntex error in the following piece of code 01 B PIC A(7) 02 C PIC 9(4) ........ IF(B NUMERIC) ADD 10 TO C a.the condition in the if statement is wrong b.noting is wrong c.because C is initialised.ADD 10 TO C is wrong d.both B and C shoud have same size.

5 Answers   TCS,

How do you fetch current date in normal cobol pgm and in cobol-db2 pgm?

3 Answers   Cap Gemini, CTS,

Difference between array and sub-script ?

1 Answers   HCL,

Hi, My interviewer ask A calls B and C calls B, a and b are static c and b are dynamic.what happens if they compile and execute at same time.

3 Answers   iGate,

i want to use only first 100 records from a file.plz tell me how to write JCL for this(for read,copy,write operations).plz give me details of all posible JCL utilities?

7 Answers   CTS,

give the examples of strings in cobol

1 Answers   IBM,

using redefine can you redefine lower variable size to higher variable size?

3 Answers   Patni,

how to resolve the file status 47.......

1 Answers   MMM,

how do you define single dimensional array and multidimensional array in your cobol?

1 Answers  

what is the meaning of pic 9(09)v99-

4 Answers   HSBC,

can anybody post me about file-aid and changemen tools pls and give me reference if any mainframe guys are there

1 Answers