Arun

• Sep 25th, 2006

Yes we can as far as we declare the working storage variables in the same way as host variables.

Balajee

• Aug 25th, 2006

Yes we can, as long as the fetch is not in a cursor

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badri

• Sep 24th, 2006

In record layout mention last fifty char filler with spaces.For example01 SAMPLE-Rec      05 SAMPLE-1 pic x(100)      05 Filler Pic x(50) value Spaces.Let me know in case of any queries.

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techieheart

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• Sep 11th, 2006

STOP is a cobol command that terminates execution of a program. RUN is just its parameter.So, to answer your question, no difference.Also, the STOP command si already obsolete and will be taken out of the new ANSI standard.

mahesh.m

• Jul 15th, 2006

stop is of cobol program,stop run is exection of cobol program.

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KANIKA

• Jul 21st, 2006

P>OUTPUT IS (A)

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sharmilabit

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• Jun 15th, 2006

D. NUMERIC OR ALPHANUMERIC IS THE RIGHT ANSWER ... IF A IS NUMERIC THEN IT WILL GET DISPLAYED OTHERWISE NOTHING WOULD BE DISPLAYED.

urvi shah

• May 13th, 2006

D is the right ans.

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sdharitas

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• Jun 14th, 2006

Hi ,Changeman is a version controller tool used keep track of the coding changes you made.Whenever you want to make changes to particular program, you need to Chechout the component from production in...

Arvind

• Jun 5th, 2006

Expeditor Tool :This is a debugging tool. Handly tool mostly widely used everywhere. There are two types of expediting, online exped and batch exped.For online exped, you may first need to compile and...

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REPLACING allows for the same copy to be used more than once in the same code by changing the replace value

pradeepbhatt

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• Jun 6th, 2006

Hi,   Replacing option in COPY verb provides facility to use same block of code for different programs having all things common except few variables in that particular block of code. It providesdes the feature of reusablity without writing it again and again.regardspbhatt

SreeHari

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• Nov 15th, 2005

Hi,COPY AR00RB REPLACING ==:AR00:== BY ==AMBS==.AR00RB COPY BOOK AS FOLLOWS AS (iam copying only few lines of code)01 :AR00:RB-WORK-AREA   03 :AR00:RB-IO-REQUEST PIC S9(04)   ...

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Wake up - you haven't been paying attention! It's not possible to pass an index via linkage. The index is not part of the calling programs working storage. Those of us who've made this mistake, appreciate the lesson more than others.

kavithalaya

• Jun 5th, 2006

We can pass subscript by linkage section. index cant.

John

• Jan 24th, 2006

Pradeep,Please don't forget that u cannot pass a Index via linkage section as it is not defined in the working storage section. It is something defined by the system.

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TONYBAR2

• May 19th, 2006

ok

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A scope terminator brackets its preceding verb, eg. IF .. END-IF, so that all statements between the verb and its scope terminator are grouped together. Other common COBOL II verbs are READ, PERFORM, EVALUATE, SEARCH and STRING.

hemant

• Apr 18th, 2006

Terminators like END-PEROFRM END-EVALUTE are called explicit scope terminaotr available in COBOL 85.

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Culver_lake

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• Mar 23rd, 2006

what you are talking about is a 2-phase commit. In cics you issue a CICS SYNCPOINT command with the commit option. This commits the transaction as a whole. Commits are propagated to DB2 and IMS and an...

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DavidStagg

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• Mar 19th, 2006

A RESIDENT program is one that is loaded into the CICS cashe. This will improve the performance of the application by not having to re-load them into memory.

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There are at least five differences: COBOL II supports structured programming by using in line PERFORMs and explicit scope terminators, it introduces new features (EVALUATE, SET .. TO TRUE, CALL .. BY CONTEXT, etc), it permits programs to be loaded and addressed above the 16 megabyte line, it does not support many old features (READY TRACE, REPORT-WRITER, ISAM, etc.), and it offers enhanced CICS...

fawzy

• Oct 11th, 2005

The END Delimiter --> END-READ                            &nbs...

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Praveen Kumar

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• Sep 28th, 2005

Ans is b ie 161.Explanation is :  01 W-REC05 A PIC 9(4)V9905 B READLINES A10 C PIC XX10 D PIC S9(4)As B redefines A so they will occupy the same memory of size : 605 E OCCURS 7 PIC ZZ.ZZThis will...

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Guest

• Sep 28th, 2005

Ans is * .* is called check protection symbol which is used as editing character to display *. 

Praveen Kumar

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• Sep 28th, 2005

Ans is c. ie *Because * is know as check protection symbol which is used to display special character.Eg: 01 CHECK-PROTECT             PIC $***,**9.99CR.DISPLAY O/P: $****123.40CR 

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In COBOL II the optional clause WITH TEST BEFORE or WITH TEST AFTER can be added to all perform statements. By default the test is performed before the perform.

gowda

• Aug 5th, 2005

If you coded test before the cond is 1st checked then perform statement will execute where as in test after the perform statement will execute 1st then the cond is checked

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Partial list: REMARKS, NOMINAL KEY, PAGE-COUNTER, CURRENT-DAY, TIME-OF-DAY, STATE, FLOW, COUNT, EXAMINE, EXHIBIT, READY TRACE and RESET TRACE.