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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What is comp-3 and advantage with examples?

murali.kv.krishna

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• Dec 24th, 2010

All computational usages are to compress data.comp3 is converts data into packet decimal format.each byte is divided into two characters in comp3.based on the type of length specified l...

shaikmf

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• Jun 11th, 2008

COMP-3 is a computational method used in COBOL. COMP-3 is represented in Packed Decimail format. Decimails are alloed to this COMP-3 Field. Each digit occupies 1/2 bite of memory, so this declara...

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Consider the follwing snippet:01 WS-VAR USAGE IS INDEXIs this a valid working storage definition?Justify your answer

pnkumar519

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• Dec 5th, 2008

01 WS-VAR USAGE IS INDEX.it is a valid working storage definition. We can use this variable to store displacement value of another table index. Like normal table index it cannot be used in any computataions and terminal control statements.Thanks,Narender

guraddiv

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• May 21st, 2008

Hi,   This is not a Valid definition bcz the USAGE IS INDEX clause is used to provide an optimized table subscript. When a table is the target of a SEARCH statement it must have an associate...

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I have date 20101010 which is stored as comp-3 . Now I want to change this date to 2010-10-10 format. How to achieve this?. I also believe that we can't split comp-3 variable.Am I rite?..Help folks!!

rakhi asthana

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• Feb 18th, 2011

If you have accepted the amount as 126778.12 from user and have to move it in COMP-3 variable then declares a user defined fields as 9(11).99 and accept the above variable into it, then move it into?...

Neha Bhargava

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• Nov 12th, 2010

We cant move the variable of type S9(10)V99 COMP-3 to ALPHANUMERIC directly.Plz declare a intermediate variable of type +9(10).99 and move it to the alphanumeric.. It works. In your case if we take th...

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What is the use of Alternate Index? Is using alternate index in file processing fast ?

MF Learner

• Dec 8th, 2011

Alternate Index is used to access the records from the file using alternate key, when there is no primary key avaliable. But using this index accessing the records is slow. Because, alternate index fo...

surendhar

• Nov 13th, 2011

Alternate index is used to access a vsam file by using alternate key.file processing is very fast.

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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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JJ

• Feb 7th, 2007

BOTH WILL WORK

Mayuresh

• Aug 22nd, 2006

Both are same here.Since the computation takes place based on precedence,here ' * ' has higher precedence over ' - 'therefore first A * B will be calculated and then C * D and finally second quan...

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EVALUATE can be used in place of the nested IF THEN ELSE statements.

Sathish kumar D

• Jul 27th, 2007

EVALUATE statement contrusts a case structure. The explicit scope terminator for EVALUATE is END-EVALUATE. The various cases can be places between the EVALUATE and END-EVALUATE statements. Example:Her...

Previndra Sharma

• Sep 2nd, 2006

Hi,In fact, Evaluate constructs case structure. we can also replace it by using nested if. It is simple in use with less complexity

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LENGTH acts like a special register to tell the length of a group or elementary item.

madhurap

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• Jul 9th, 2008

Length is an Intrinsic function in Cobol which returns number of characters in any variable.

jitendra

• Jun 18th, 2006

Length(ws-length) : ws-length we have to declare in working storage section

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Senijor Mastrojani

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• Oct 24th, 2006

In C/C++ you can define the function by the arguments taken and arguments returned and request an execution of function any neccessary number of times.In COBOL you simply use a PERFORM Paragraph-Name ...

techieheart

• Sep 11th, 2006

Intrinsic functions in COBOL can be coded this way:FUNCTION FunctionName(Parameters)If your installation is using LE/370 then you can access the following functions:1. Date functions: eg... CURRENT...

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rajalg05

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• Apr 5th, 2009

Go to spool. Then option 1 (LOG). At the bottom you will get the total execution time. At the top yo will get the execution start time.

Vishaal

• Jun 22nd, 2006

There is no TSO option for that.Go to your spool and check for the details of the job

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shriniv

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• Jul 6th, 2007

It is very much possible to store and read images in COBOL files, using binary format. However for displaying the image, one needs to use third-party tools.

manoj

• Sep 28th, 2006

I think it is not possible to add an image using cobol prog.  I have read more then 10 books on cobol but i am not getting this ans.if anyone knows , heartiest wel come.thanksmanoj

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imtiazk

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• Oct 13th, 2010

You can use SPLICE is jcl.

Sree

• Feb 2nd, 2007

sort the two files in assecding order.. with maching sequence take one file as master file and read the master file first and read the other file for matching compare the maching value if machval1...

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Stop Run is last command in COBOL program.But if it is missing, will the program abend?

Geek_H

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• Apr 2nd, 2010

Program will abend with U4038.

mail_mathewsonyc

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• Sep 1st, 2007

"Stop Run" and "Go Back" both indicate to the program to end processing and in the latter case to transfer control to the calling program.If you dont specify either of these in you...

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I have a file having 1000 records and each record having 8 fields, but i want to output having 1,3,5,7 fields only, then how can i achieve this criteria?

sandeep

• Nov 24th, 2011

using sort in jcl we can get the required fields in output file like, "jcl in sort jcl, //sysin dd * sort fields=copy outrec fields=(starting position in o/p file:starting fie...

babjee talluri

• Jul 26th, 2011

But we know the length of the field, if we know the length, if it's wrong let you tell me asap, i am fresher

perform until 1000 times
read file1rec
move(1:10) to a(1:10)
move(30:10) to a(12:10)
move(50:10) to a(24:10)
move(70:10) to a(36:10)
display a
end-perform.

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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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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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aparna

• Oct 5th, 2007

Ans is: i and iii are valid

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dhana

• Feb 12th, 2007

The answer is b.

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