How to find whether a Flat file is empty or not without Reading a file in COBOL Program. (not using JCL)

9 Answers   Bank Of America,

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Suppose, file A has 100 records and file B has 500 records. We want to write records common to both A and B into file C and records which are present only in either A or B into another file D. What should be the logic of Cobol program to achieve this?

7 Answers   Bank Of America, Mind Tree,

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What is the maximum length of a field you can define using COMP-3 in COBOL?

1 Answers   UGC Corporation,

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77 a pic x(4) value '1234' -----> instead of this 'abcd' 77 b pic 9(4) value zeros. move a to b what is the answers for both cases? IS it possible? Give me elementary move rules briefly......

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What is an explicit scope terminator?

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how to display the dataset information?

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What is the difference between CONTINUE & NEXT SENTENCE ?

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WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 A PIC X(3) VALUE 'ABC' 01 B PIC 9(3). PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE A TO B. STOP RUN. OUTPUT IS: AB3 WHY AND HOW THIS IS HAPPENING.

4 Answers   Atos Origin,

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Re: 01 NAME1 PIC X(13) VALUE "COBOL PROGRAMMING". 01 NAME2 PIC X(13). now I want to display the value of NAME1 in reverse order i.e value should be displayed as "GNIMMARGORP LOBOC" HOW can I do that ??? please let me know if any one knows it.

2 Answers   IBM,

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how will u code parm parameter and where pls ?

3 Answers   DELL,

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At the minimum, which division of COBOL is enough to be coded?

3 Answers   CTS,

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How many times the loop runs here 01 a pic 9(2) value 10. perform para1 a times stop run. para1: move 20 to a.

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