if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?

Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback



if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?..

Answer / binesh

Maximum of 16 cylinders

Is This Answer Correct ?    4 Yes 1 No

if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?..

Answer / nag(igate)

this is VSAM question.
the maximum extents to secondary is depend on the files
used:
For sequential: 15
for VSAM : 123

in this case the answer is : 1+1*123=124 cylinders

Is This Answer Correct ?    2 Yes 0 No

if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?..

Answer / nagaraj ramamoorthy

it depends based on the size of the file.

when the dataset is created, 1 cylinder(primary quantity)
will be allocated. When the primary quantity is utilised
completely then the secondary quantity will be extended 1
cylinder. likewise it will extend 16 secondary extends for
seq files..

Is This Answer Correct ?    2 Yes 1 No

Post New Answer

More COBOL Interview Questions

if a=b how the flow will complete??? perform test through test-exit. perform activa through activa-exit. test. if a=b then next sentence else move a to c. test-exit. exit. activa. -- -- activa-exit. exit.

1 Answers   IBM,


What is an index for tables?

2 Answers  


What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

0 Answers  


what are the error codes in cobol, db2, cics, vsam , and jcl

2 Answers   TetraSoft,


What is the default value of DISP for temp datasets

5 Answers   IBM,






How to retain the Duplicates in the one records?

3 Answers   CS,


How can we increase the size of an existing PDS to include more no. of modules.

3 Answers  


How many maximum number of procedures can we write in one COBOL program?

5 Answers  


How does IDMS communicate with CICS?

1 Answers   Covansys, Satyam,


describe 805 error

6 Answers   DELL,


What are the ways you can generate a copybook?

2 Answers  


What is the difference between a subscript and an index in a table definition?

3 Answers   TCS,


Categories