What divisions, sections and paragraphs are mandatory for a
COBOL program?
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Answer / where the way begins
IDENTIFICATION dIVISION AND PROGRAM id ARE MANDATORY
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Answer / avinanda mukherjee
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION AND PROGRAM ID IS MANDATORY..
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 19 Yes | 2 No |
Answer / guest_1
In order to compile and run a COBOL program under MVS,
ID DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. DUMMY.
are more than enough.
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Answer / hari
Id division.
Program-id. pgmname.
Procedure division.
STOP RUN.
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Answer / sanj
IDENTIFIACTION DIVISION.
PROGRAM ID. DUMMY.
compiles successfully and returns MAXCC = 0.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / sharath
ID division.
Procedure Division
Above 2 divisions are mandatory
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Answer / guest
As you said giving IDENTIFICATION DIVISION & PROGRAM-ID is
mandatory in a normal cobol program. This is important for
a program to get compiled. But if you try executing the
program with these two statements alone, you will get SOC4
abend as your program tries to access a storage location to
which it was not authorized.
For a program to run successfully, all the 4 divisions and
the program-id paragraph are mandatory.
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Answer / elite group
Identification, Data Divison & procedure division.
If any files are there file-section. working storage section
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