Answer / elite group

S9(18) Comp-3

Answer / smita padhy

The maximum length of a computational item is 18 decimal
digits, except
for a PACKED-DECIMAL item. If the ARITH(COMPAT) compiler
option is in
effect, then the maximum length of a PACKED-DECIMAL item is
18 decimal
digits. If the ARITH(EXTEND) compiler option is in effect,
then the
maximum length of a PACKED-DECIMAL item is 31 decimal
digits.

Answer / nihar ranjan karan

If you use the compiler option ARITH(EXTEND) then you can
have a maximum of 31 digits.

Look up the compiler option ARITH in manual... you will get
some more info also...

Answer / vivek ar

The first answr is correct .It is indeeed 10

how will u pass dadta to cobol+db2 program...?

4 Answers   IBM,

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I have a COBOL main program which is calling sub program, the number of calling parameters used in main program are 4 whereas in sub program it's 5. Sub program is passing 5 parameters back to main program Will there be any compilation error? Or main program parameters displays junk values?

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What is cobol?

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how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

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6 Answers   Patni,

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3 Answers   IBM,

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Suppose a program has the following code. What will be the output? MAIN-PARA. DISPLAY 'MAIN-PARA' PERFORM SECTION-A. STOP RUN. SECTION-A. PARA-A1. DISPLAY 'SECTION A PARA A1'. PARA-A2. DISPLAY 'SECTION A PARA A2'.

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4 Answers   Steria,

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Our issue is there seems to be a disconnect, or no link, between our SELECT statement and our SD. We had SELECT SORT-FILE and SELECT SORT-FILE ASSIGN TO SORTWRK. ASSIGN TO SORTWRK1 SORTWRK2 SORTWRK3 SORTWRK4. with SD SORT_FILE RECORD CONTAINS 7833 CHARACTERS. In either case, at run time, the system ignored our SORTWRK# DD statements and allocated 16 sort works with the SORTWK## naming convention. Any ideas why the system does not recognize the connection? We do not even need the SORTWRK DD statements. Thanks

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how to access vsam files in cobol and how to differentiate that this is ESDS file

1 Answers   EDS,

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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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