Answer / sreedhar

Linkage section is a part of data division.
This can be coded in 2 situations
1) When we want to pass data from Jcl to COBOL program using parm parameter.
2) when mainprogram communicates with sub program then we code linkage section in sub program

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

1 Answers   CSC,

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If we put three reads in COBOL in the same para one after the other, to read a PS file,will it read the same record thrice or it will read three records sequentially? For example : Input File 01 02 03 Para 900 Read infile Display Infile rec Read infile Display infile rec Read infile Display infile rec. What will be the output?

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) How do u handle errors in BMS macro?

1 Answers   IBM,

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how can we get current dat and time thru cobol pgm

3 Answers   DELL,

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What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

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What is perform what is varying?

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given the following: 77 A PIC 9V9 VALUE 9.5 77 B PIC 9 VALUE 9. 77 C PIC V9 VALUE 0.8 77 D PIC 9 77 E PIC 9 77 F PIC 9V999 what are the contenta of D E nad F after the following statements are executed: COMPUTE F ROUNDED=A+C/B MULTIPLY A BY C GIVING E ADD B C A GIVING D ROUNDED a.F=9.589 E=8 D=1 b.F=9.589 E=8 D=9 c.F=9.589 E=7 D=9 d.F=9.589 E=7 D=1

5 Answers   Broadridge, TCS,

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what are the diferences b/w sub-script and index?

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i want a program using by if, evaluate , string, unstring, perform, occurs?

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What are subroutines ? and how do we pass data to the sub routines?

2 Answers   Xansa,

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File status must be checked both while opening and reading the file or only while reading the file?

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S9(5)V9(2) occupies how many bytes memory ?

6 Answers   Cap Gemini,

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