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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Scope terminators are mandatory for in-line PERFORMS and EVALUATE statements. For readability, it's recommended coding practice to always make scope terminators explicit.

ramesh4greek

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• Jun 11th, 2010

The usage scope terminator exactly can get at Perform. For example if you are in Table creation, then you can use multiple paras in that one. But by In-line perform you can avoid to create multiple pa...

himanshu kaushik

• Dec 20th, 2006

In line perform & evaluate verb. in these two scope terminator is mandatory.

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mf.vannan

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• Dec 22nd, 2009

1. When we want to store the datas in BINARY format.2. When we are receving the datas from the JCL. Regds,Rasipuram ManiVannan M

Avinash Sharma

• Apr 10th, 2007

We  use comp field in cobol because when we want to store the data in binary form we use comp and the sign is placed in rightmost bit. c is used for +ve sign and d is used for -ve sign.

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richard

• Sep 16th, 2011

Can you give me an example of program c#.net that can be encrypt/decrypt password in the database.......

praddu

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• May 7th, 2007

Ans: ACCEPT PASSWORD WITH NO ECHO.  With this clause the password is encrypted

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kiran_28

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• May 26th, 2010

Change man cost more for company but time less.Endeavor saves money more but takes time to execute job more.

Dinesh

• Apr 13th, 2007

Both Endeavor and Changeman are version control tool in Mainframe where you can elevate your components into production. A pacakge can be created and stage the componets that to be elevated to prodcution.

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mhiremath

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• May 15th, 2008

Declare Working storage variable01  DISP-DATE  PIC X(16).In procedure Division ... use the following code to move current date to disp-date. This will give you current date, month, day, hh,mm,ss ... MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE (1:16) TO DISP-DATEThank you,Milind

praleo

• Jul 12th, 2006

ACCEPT WS-ACCEPT-DATE   FROM DATE.     ACCEPT WS-ACCEPT-TIME   FROM TIME.declare ws-accept-date and ws-accept-time in working-storage section     

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neha

• Oct 4th, 2007

The max size a table space can take is 64 GB.

Culver_lake

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• Mar 19th, 2006

A tablespace is not a COBOL concept it's pure DB2. In version 8 of DB2 using a partitioned tablespace with 4096 partitions and a page size of 32K, the table space can reach 128 Tb. (that's terabytes, 128 trillion, 128 million gigabytes, 128,000,000,000,000 bytes) pretty big.

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srinivashn82

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• Oct 26th, 2007

Through INTERNAL READER

mark

• Oct 24th, 2006

1.how to pass values from one jcl to another jcl, if how ?as per previous poster you can communicate through datasets.3.how to access jcl from cobol?You can invoke JCL as an entity of a database4.how to display comp fields? move them to display numeric format and than display.

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Ganesh

• May 31st, 2007

Hi Lavanya,Why don't you try before answering any question??Readers should not confused by your answers. Answer given by Poonam is absolutely correct!!!

poonam

• Jun 11th, 2006

Display CTR will contain 12345E coz +ve sign will be stored on rightmost digit

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P.Karthikkumar

• Jan 17th, 2007

Hi, It is possible through jcl. For example if the input file contains 80 record length thenIn sort, INREC=(1:1,80,81:SEQNUM,6,ZD),SORT FIELDS=(81,6,ZD,D),OUTREC=(1:1,80) 1) Using inrec...

deepa

• Oct 2nd, 2006

In sequential file

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susi

• Nov 27th, 2006

The Evaluate statement can be used in replacement of Nested-IF statements. These are also potentially used by combining the logical operators.FOR EG:evaluate a > 100 and a < 500    mov...

Max

• Oct 17th, 2006

In short, evaluate is a replacement of nested-if.If 1+1>2 then display '1+1>2 is wrong'else if 1+1<2 then display '1+1<2 is wrong too'      else display 'you ...

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ashish_setia

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• Dec 20th, 2006

hey,actually at that time i mean in late 60's or early 70's , COBOL was the most popular langugae available, thats why main frame computers use this language,also this is a very simple english like la...

Ritesh Kumar

• Dec 20th, 2006

COBOL is desigend specifically for commercial applications , such as payroll and inventory,that typically operate on a large volume of data.> older mainframe -based "leagcy" system will need to be maintained by mainframe programmers who knpw cobol.

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mf.vannan

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• Dec 22nd, 2009

It gives the ERROR SOC7. 

shriniv

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• Jul 6th, 2007

You can redefine pic x(10) with pic 9(10) without any data loss, as long as you don't move the value of the x-variable  to 9-variable.

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mf.vannan

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• Dec 22nd, 2009

GOBACKControll will goes back where it is receive.If it is coded in Sub programe. controll will goes to Main program after the execution. Plz note that do not stop run the sub program when we are using the goback.Chain control will pass to next level.Regds,Rasipuram Manivannan M

kiran.r

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• Jan 2nd, 2008

Goback:            controller should return back to where ever it comes from.chain:         controller will go to subprogram after compleation of subprogram it will go to os.

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cds dash

• Nov 20th, 2007

The eject command is similar to the forward slash In olden times when COBOL was a length and combersome language to master on, generally the entire program were printed using drum roller printer this ...

Lance Norteno

• Aug 13th, 2007

From everything I've read, eject does the same thing as a forward slash in column 7.  It will take you to top of page.  This is useful when debugging your program so you can separate your COBOL paragraphs.  More noticeable if you print out your program. 

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sekhargupta

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• Jan 9th, 2008

Call by content : If we change formal arguments (variables used in sub program), their corresponding actual arguments (variables used in main) will not be changed.ex ) CALL   'subprg'...

kiran.r

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• Jan 2nd, 2008

Call by context:      if there is any modifications in sub prograam,it wont effect on main program.call by reference:      if there is any modifications in sub prograam,it will effect on mainprogram.

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hmp_8304

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• Aug 2nd, 2008

Length of rec1 is 6 Char

dpg_25

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• Feb 14th, 2008

The length of rec1 is 6 bytes but the code is wrong. You can't redefine 01 level field with 02 level field. Redefined and redefining variables should be at the same level.If your code looks like t...

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lfrank

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• Jan 8th, 2008

A statically linked subroutine becomes part of the load module at link-edit time. At execution time, the routine is present when the module is brought into memory from the load library.A dynamically l...

sravanth_bobby

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• Dec 19th, 2007

If Prog A calls Prog B statically then they have a single load module say LOAD Aif Prog A calls Prog B dynamically then Prog A has a load module say LOAD A & Prog B has a seperate Load module say LOAD B.

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can we use "'" in BEFORE or AFTER phrase for limiting the length of the string to be searched in the INSPECT verb

Mainframer18

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• Aug 5th, 2009

I dont see why not. As long as it is within quotes, the apostrophe will be treated like any other character.

ravi30

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• Jan 3rd, 2008

u should be using the "" in the phrase for example:inspect Studentsname tallying counter for all "a" after/before "s".

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Mainframer18

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• Aug 5th, 2009

If you mean zoned decimal, it is an external decimal numeric type in COBOL and may be defined using 9,V,S,P in the declaration.E.g. S9(3)V99. The usage for this declaration is DISPLAY. The range for t...

kanian

• Nov 22nd, 2007

Zonal decimal is nothing but our simple declaration. Simple declaration means each digits count as a bytes.  For exaple. 77 A pic 99. Now A  is  2 bytes(99(2 digits) counts 2 bytescomp...

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