Answer / saravanan

variable lenth means record should be in different format
(lenth).but the first 4 bytes only taken as a record lenth.
fixed lenth means we have declaring a record lenth.

Answer / udaya bharathi

fixed length file contains same record length for all
records.but in variable length files length of the record
varies ,it can be useful in such cases we are not sure
about the length of the output file to be generated

study the following 01 A PIC 99V0 VALUE 5 01 B PIC 9V9 VALUE 6 01 C PIC 99V9 VALUE 2.5 01 D PIC 99 VALUE 3 COMPUTE A ROUNDED B C = A+B*C/D ON SIZE ERROR PERFORM PRINT-ERROR the comments of A.B.C after execution of the above statement are a.A=10 B=0 C=10 b.A=10 B=9.9 C=9.9 c.A=10 B=0 C=9.9 d.A=10 B=6 C=10

4 Answers   TCS,

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SUPPOSE I HAVE 60 CHARACTERS STING. IN THAT I WANT FIND OUT HOW MANY TIMES 'A'(ASSUME)WILL REPEATED AND I HAVE TO PASS 'E' IN PLACE OF 'A'ALONG THAT STRING.

2 Answers   Wipro,

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when iam reading a flat file which has 100 records through cobol program when iam reading 50th records it gets abends .. so when i run the program again it should read from 50th record .where it got abened ? how it is possible

1 Answers   Patni,

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What is "Call by content" and "call by reference"?

4 Answers   ADP, Syntel,

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what is S04E error in jcl?

11 Answers   IBM, L&T,

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can u give result for the fallowing example... 05 a pic 9(2) 05 b redifines a pic x(2). move 'xy' to b. display a,b.

10 Answers   IBM,

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Will the variable POS in the following code have a value of 2 or not? 01 POS PIC S9(4) COMP VALUE 2. 01 FIRST-NAME PIC X(10) VALUE 'ABC'. 01 LAST-NAME PIC X(10) VALUE 'XYZ'. 01 NAME PIC X(20) VALUE SPACES. STRING FIRST-NAME DELIMITED BY SPACES ' ' DELIMITED BY SIZE LAST-NAME DELIMITED BY SPACES INTO NAME WITH POINTER POS

2 Answers  

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What are literals?

0 Answers  

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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?

1 Answers  

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i have the job which has written updated 100 records into the table and for 101th record it got abended and i want to start the job again and should wirte from 101th record not from 1st record..how to do it..?

6 Answers  

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I have 100 records in a file.. i want to sort the records from 5 to 5o... give the syntax...

2 Answers   CTS, DSRC,

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01rec1. 05 a pic 999v99 value 123.12 05 b pic 99v9 value 45.9 02 rec2. 05 x pic 999v99 05 y pic 99v99 05 z pic x(3) value 'abc' if rec1 is moved to rec2 then what is the value of rec2?

5 Answers   Amdocs,

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