nagaraju

• Apr 30th, 2013

value : value clause is used to initialize values at working storage section only. i.e.., giving the values at declaration time initialize : this verb is used in 2 ways. 1) used to supply the init...

talluri

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• Jul 27th, 2011

INITIALIZE verb is used to refresh the alphabetic & alphanumeric empty fields with SPACES and numeric empty fields with ZEROS

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davindersingh29

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• May 17th, 2013

Just to add, my two cents: Data items in the LOCAL-STORAGE SECTION are automatically allocated for each instance of a program invocation. When a program runs in multiple threads simultaneously, each ...

Toleshwar

• Mar 14th, 2013

Local storage section is a section of Data Division of Cobol which is similar to the Working storage section. The only difference being that the variables in the Local Storage always get initialised w...

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C1-TRUE C2-FALSE C3-TRUE A,B,C are defined as given below
A:C1 AND(NOT C2) OR C3
B.(NOT C1) OR (NOT C2 AND NOT C3)
C.(C1 OR C2)AND C3 D.C1 AND C2 OR C3
given the above information which of the following statements are valid? a.only A,B and C are TRUE
b.only A,C and D are TRUE
c.A,B,C and D are TRUE
d.only C and D are TRUE

Chinnu Ann Jose

• Aug 21st, 2013

B

charanjeet kaur

• Jun 9th, 2013

A.C.D

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In COBOL II the 88 levels can be set rather than moving their associated values to the related data item. (Web note: This change is not one of COBOL II's better specifications.)

Nath

• Sep 13th, 2013

@poojaDeep & @gilbat82, As you said, I have three doubts. 1. While starting execution of the program after declaring in working storage as you said, what are the initial values (TRUE or FALSE) are s...

gilbat82

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• Jul 15th, 2008

Last answer is correct and below example also.e.g. 05  ACCOUNT-TYPE         PIC X(01) VALUE 'N'.        &nb...

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Hi,

I was asked in interview how would you analyze a COBOL program?

I gave the ans as there are many kind of analyses -:
Requirement analysis
Root cause analysis
Impact Analysis
Problem / logic analysis

but in general we talk about problem finding in a program
and told him we would first go in for a procedure division and check what...

abhishek

• Jan 21st, 2014

Local-Storage is allocated each time the program is called and is de-allocated when the program returns via an EXIT PROGRAM, GOBACK, or STOP RUN. Any data items with a VALUE clauses are initialized to...

davindersingh29

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• May 17th, 2013

Second part of your answer seems satisfactory. You should have asked the interviewer for what we need to analyze, if its just for document purpose, then your answer is right. If its for a change, then there are specific areas we need to analyze for the changes impact.

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Is there any use of using COMP fields other than betwee SPACE utilization?

Rohit Dwivedi

• Jun 3rd, 2014

For getting precision in the mathematical calculation the Comp variables provide more precisions as well rather than simple Numeric and Decimal values

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Lalit Pant

• Jul 10th, 2014

Option b

Rishi Sharma

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• Jun 11th, 2014

Sorry Shashi and Soumya but this will work and answer would be B

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Harsha

• Jul 24th, 2014

Both are binary values. One can have + or - values while other can only have + values

Pradip Wagh

• Apr 17th, 2014

First is Binary storage and Second one is just Numeric storage.
Also, First will take 2 bytes of storage whereas Second one requires 4 Bytes of memory.

Correct me if I am wrong.!!!

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Harsha

• Jul 26th, 2014

Redefine with occur is possible
Redefine within occur is possible
Occur within redefine is possible
Redefining occur clause is not possible

Let me know if anything is not clear

ARPANA K CHANDRA

• May 10th, 2012

NO.occurs cant be redefined.

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ajayreddy

• Nov 17th, 2014

When program designed to receive data from jcl or from other programs appropriate data items should be defined in this linkage section. Through the data items defines in this section,program will get...

Pradeep CR

• Aug 28th, 2014

Linkage basically used for to receive date, that is external to the program. So you can able to send the data to the processing program by JCL through PARM parameter. For this you have to declare 2byt...

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Explain it with an example?

Abhusha

• Nov 20th, 2014

INSPECT allows to count or replace a character or a group of characters . Inspect has options of tallying/ replacing and converting

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Which one of the following COPY statement is correct?1) COPY COPYFILE REPLACE ==PRE-== ==WK-==2) COPY COPYFILE REPLACING =PRE-= =WK-=3) COPY COPYFILE SUPPRESS4) COPY REPLACING ==PRE-== ==WK-== IN COPYFILE5) COPY SUPPRESS COPYFILE

Abhusha

• Nov 20th, 2014

COPY COPYFILE REPLACING =PRE-= =WK-= is the correct answer

correct syntax Syntax:
COPY copybook-name [(OF/IN) library name]
[REPLACING string-to-be-replaced BY replacing-string]

Rishu

• Jul 27th, 2014

1st one the answer

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sashi

• Nov 19th, 2014

I have one ps file it contain 2 headers ans 2 tiles each header contain some records now my requirement is i want 2 header contain some records copy to out put file is this possible could u please suggest me.

Rishi Sharma

• May 22nd, 2014

Yes it can be done by following code:

Code
 

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Difference between Divisions and paragraphs in COBOL explain in details ?

hemanth

• Feb 17th, 2015

In the cobol has mainly four divisions so inside the divisions sections are there inside the sections has paragraphs ...

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An external sort is not COBOL; it is performed through JCL and PGM=SORT. It is understandable without any code reference. An internal sort can use two different syntaxes: 1.) USING, GIVING sorts are comparable to external sorts with no extra file processing; 2) INPUT PROCEDURE, OUTPUT PROCEDURE sorts allow for data manipulation before and/or after the sort.

Kirk

• Aug 8th, 2015

Internal sort uses the compilers internal sort features. External sort calls 3rd party utility sort feature.
External sort feature is usually used for LARGE volume of data.

rahul

• Dec 7th, 2014

Internal sorting is used to arrange a certain order in RAM or else we can say primary memory while external sorting is to sort order of external memory for huge data

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shashank

• Aug 18th, 2015

A.50

shashank

• Aug 18th, 2015

D..because comp1 and com2 value contains only hexadecimal value hence it predicts unpredictable value

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What is the use and when do we are use comp variables (comp, comp1, comp2 and comp3)?

swapanali

• Aug 18th, 2015

Only numeric data items can be specified as USAGE IS COMPUTATIONAL. COMP-1:In this case the data item will be represented in one word in the floating point form the number is actually represented in ...

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Chander

• Sep 22nd, 2015

Hi, I guess the Hex range can be checked, HEX 50-60 is special chars.

Pranab

• Sep 13th, 2014

Through "Inspect" verb its possible. like, if you want to search $ in var1 than - INSPECT VAR1 TELLING TELLY1 ALL $ DELIMITED BY SIZE.

if TELLY is >0 then it is having the special character $.

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Anitha R

• Nov 13th, 2015

B) 90/12/31

naresh

• Nov 5th, 2015

90/12/31

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I have two modules called 'A' and 'B'. Module 'A' opens the ORACLE database connection, and Calls 'B', which queries the database using the 'SELECT' statement.When I hard code the module name during CALL, the called module uses the database connection opened in the module 'A'. Pls refer below:CALL "B"But, when I moved the module name into a variable and try to call the module, as belowMOVE "B" TO...

Sharad

• Feb 9th, 2016

This problem can be resolved by compiling the main program (Calling program) using the DYNAM compiler option

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