Answer Posted / jeet

Arrays are basically used to store data which are of
similar type in contiguos memory locations.
Tables on the other hand you can think it as a list which
is used for lookup/referencing, for example when doing a
SEARCH/SEARCH ALL.

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Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

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Define static linking and dynamic linking.

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what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

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Which is not true about evaluate statement

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What are the different rules of SORT operation?

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here is my requirement A1 is alphanumeric with value 'A1B2C3D4' as defined below 05 A1 PIC X(8) VALUE IS 'A1B2C3D4' but i need to have A2,A3 as ABCD & 1234 repectively...... A2 = ABCD A3 = 1234 Can you please explain me what are the different ways to do it?

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What is an in line perform? When would you use it? Anything else you wish to say about it.

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What kind of error is trapped by on size error option?

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How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the ksds file records into cobol program?

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how do you reference the esds vsam file formats from cobol programs

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I have File 1 occurs 5 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE and MECH). I have File 2 occurs 10 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE,CIVIL,CHEMICAL and MECH). In FIle 1 and FIle 2 , for matching Employee-DEPT (Only MECH) , we need to move entire records from file1 to file 2. We should not use 2D array. Your help is needed here.

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What is the difference between perform … with test after and perform … with test before?

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Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

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