Answer / srinivas

COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), developed in 1959 by a group called Conference on Data Systems Language
(CODASYL). First COBOL compiler was released by December 1959.
First ANSI approved version – 1968
Modified ANSI approved version – 1974 (OS/VS COBOL)
Modified ANSI approved version – 1985 (VS COBOL 2)

COBOL/400 is the standard COBOL adopted by IBM for the AS400 system. It differentiates in the sense that the file handling for reports and subfiles, indicator usage and any other feature specific to AS400 have been incorporated in it.

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.

0 Answers   Steria,

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what are the steps to sort in a cobol program?

2 Answers   Patni,

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what is sysncpoint?

1 Answers   IBM,

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What is the default value of DISP parameter?

3 Answers   IBM,

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i want to store 20 digits . h will u do it in cobol ?

4 Answers   TCS,

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How can we increase the size of an existing PDS to include more no. of modules. I tried the answer posted by Jagan(TSO PDS 'pds name') but did not find it working. The answer posted by kamal i know very well. Please suggest me a answer so that we don't need to delete the existing PDS and still we can change the size as well.

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I have two questions here. 1. How to read a flat file in reverse order? 2. How to read a VSAM KSDS file in reverse order? In both the cases we donot know the total number of records.

2 Answers   L&T,

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If you were passing a table via linkage, which is preferable - a subscript or an index?

3 Answers   TCS,

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What is Static and Dynamic linking ?

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Can anyone explain me CALL procedure in COBOL.Does it carries similarities like call by reference in C.

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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(6) value is abc 01 b pic x(3) move a to b wht will be the value ?

7 Answers   Patni,

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If there are two copybooks which have same variables and we are using both the copybooks in our program. will there be an error and if i move values to the variable which copybook varibales gets the values i move in.

3 Answers   CTS,

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