How do we get current date from system with century in COBOL?

0 Answers   Winsol Solutions,

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What will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in a stand alone COBOL program ?

8 Answers   Arigo Infotech, IBM,

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what is index and how to use two tables using index?

1 Answers  

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Suppose i have a Cobol field of 10 byte. it contains a decimal sign.How to know where is the point location?

1 Answers  

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Suppose i have a variable with s9(18)v99 comp3 . what is the size of variable . If s9(18) comp3 is 10 bytes . There should be some difference between two allocations ? Thanks krishna chaitanya

2 Answers   CSC,

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I have a PS file and I would like to manually insert the binary values (like a COMP format) into the file. How can i do that? the way do in COMP-3 format.. suppose i want to insert -12345 in to file in comp-3 format. simply we can open a file in edit mode and do HEX-ON and insert the value . SEE BELOW-- 135 24D in 3 bytes - this will be COMP-3 presenatation of -12345.

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db2 variable decimal(15,2) what is the equalent size of cobol variable

2 Answers   Syntel,

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I have a field with data type X(10). I want to perform arithmetic operation on this field? I tried doing it by moving the value into a numeric field. but it didn't work out. I am getting a S0C7 abend. Pls let me know if there is any way of getting this done?

2 Answers   ADP,

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How do you reference the following file formats from cobol programs?

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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.

1 Answers   L&T,

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What are the different forms of EVALUATE statement?

2 Answers   IBM, Micro Labs,

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01 a pic x(4) value 'abcd' 01 b pic 9(3) can we move from a to b.if possible what would be stored in b.

15 Answers   ACS,

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