Dear Friends,

This is regarding COBOL comp.

PIC X(3) occupy the 3 bytes... but PIC 9(3)V9(7) COMP occupied how much bytes?

I said in interview that 10/2 = 5 bytes. V is specified for decimal point.

Is that correct? But interviewer looked at me differently when I said this answer?

If you are more confident, please reply this ...thanks...

Jyoti Kalagi

• Feb 15th, 2023

We can store only 9 and S not V in comp ,if we want to store decimal use comp-3 not comp

rathna

• Aug 17th, 2022

N/2 for even number and than +1. (n+1/2) for odd number.
3+7=10
10/5= 5
5+1=6

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05 WS-VAR1 PIC X(5),05 WS-VAR2 REDEFINES WA-VAR1 PIC 9(5),PROCEDURE DIVISION MOVE 'ABCDE' TO WS-VAR1.Now what is the value of WS-VAR1 and WS-VAR2 ?

Jeevan Poojar

• Apr 25th, 2021

WS_VAR1 - ABCDE
WS-VAR2 - A CDE

supriya

• Sep 5th, 2017

Here given 05 WS-VAR2 redefines WA-VAR1 pic 9(5). means WA-VAR1 should be defined in working storage so while compiling it will throw the error. but excluding this next statement in procedure division is move abcde to ws-var1. means value of ws-var1 is =abcde

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VISHAL

• Jan 25th, 2020

01-49--------------W-S-SECTION
02-49---------------FILE SECTION

giriswamy

• Aug 17th, 2012

Except 66 and 88 levels it will work.

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What is redefine in COBOL?

Dhans

• Sep 2nd, 2019

The REDEFINES clause is used to store more than one data items in the same storage area. Syntax: level-number Data-name1 REDEFINES Data-name-2 data-name-1 is the redefining item or the REDEFINES su...

gauravaram

• Dec 6th, 2018

redefines class is something you can use the existing memory location for your new variable using the redefines caluse 01 emp-data pic x(100) 05 emp-name pic x (40) 05 emp-no pic x(20) 05 fi...

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NEXT SENTENCE gives control to the verb following the next period. CONTINUE gives control to the next verb after the explicit scope terminator. (This is not one of COBOL II's finer implementations). It's safest to use CONTINUE rather than NEXT SENTENCE in COBOL II.

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Answered by: umapathi

• Jul 20th, 2006

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the following code explains u clearly

If A>B

next sentence

end-if

display 1

display 2.

display 3.

     it will display only 3. if a>b

if a>b

continue

end-if

display 1

display 2.

display 3.

it will display 1 2 3. if a>b. let me know if it is not correct.

Prasanth Karthikeyan

• Sep 14th, 2018

Continue pushes the control to Add +1 to Input-count. Say if Input-count was 0 then the value will be iterated to 1

Next sentence will never add +1 to Input-count it will bypass the command. Say if Input-count was 0 then the value will remain same.

Amit

• Jan 17th, 2017

When NEXT SENTENCE is coded, Program will not add +1 to INPUT-COUNT.
When CONTINUE is coded, +1 will be added to INPUT-COUNT.

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Srinivas Enumula

• Sep 8th, 2017

Copy - Expand the copybook statements during compilation time.

Include - Expand the copybook statements during pre-compilation time. Usually for DELGENS we use INCLUDE as DCLGEN statements needed during pre-compilation process.

surya

• Dec 31st, 2015

Copy will be used in the cobol compile process and Include will be used during the Db2 precompile process. So we include a Dclgen. We cannot copy a dclgen..If so the program will fail the compilation.We can include a copybook too.

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In the case of static call the mainprogram and subpgms r loaded into the mainmemory initially.in the case of dynamic call only the mainpgm is loaded first and the subpgm is loaded only when a call to it is made.so the memory utilization is good in dynamic call.

sadik s

• Jun 4th, 2016

Static and dynamic will be decided only on compiler if NODYNAM - it is static, if DYNUM then dynamic.

Saurabh Bandyopadhyay

• Mar 8th, 2016

In case of Static Call, we use the call literal. For example, CALL PGM1. In case of dynamic call, we define a variable and pass the sub-program name to it before calling. Ex- 01 WS-VAR1 PIC...

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Anitha R

• Nov 13th, 2015

B) 90/12/31

naresh

• Nov 5th, 2015

90/12/31

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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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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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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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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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snehali

• Apr 3rd, 2013

The level number 02 to 49 are use to specify the group and elementary data items within a record.

Vaneeshkhurana

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• Mar 21st, 2010

Although level 02-49 level are group or elementry elements but sometimes 49 are used for dynmic SQL, i.e.01 WS-SQl-statement1-VARIABLE.    49  WS-SQL-STATEMENT1-LEN  &nbs...

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• Aug 1st, 2012

C=B/A

Cathy

• Jul 1st, 2012

C.C=B/A

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Ramesh

• Jun 16th, 2012

Yes...You can define redefines clause at all levels except 66 and 88 in working-storage section....where as in file section we cant redefine at 01 level..other than this you can...and you cant redefine at occurs clause level...

PKK

• Dec 9th, 2011

The REDEFINES clause can be used when the two data items have the same level number. The exceptions are when the special purpose 66 or 88 level numbers are used and when the level number is at 01 in t...

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What are the four divisions in COBOL

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venkat65318  

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• Member Since Sep-2009 | Sep 13th, 2009

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In Cobol there are 4 divisions.

1. Identification division or ID division
In this no setions are there. It has 5 paragraphs.
a. Progaram-id. programname
b. Author
c. Writen-date
d. Compiled-date
e. Installer

2. Environment Division
Under this there are two sub-sections
a. Configuration-section.
     Source compter.
     Object computer.
b. Input-Output section.
     File control.
     IO control.

3. Data Division
File-section.
Working-storage section.
Linkage section.
Report section.
Screen section.

4. Procedure Division

saurabh bandyopadhyay

• May 25th, 2012

There is another section in Data division; named as LOCAL-STORAGE SECTION.

For a recursive cobol program, you need to use that section to hold the current values of each variable while the program run.

Regards,
Saurabh Bandyopadhyay.
Mainframe Developer, India.

Nithya

• May 10th, 2012

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION */ mandatory */should contain PROGRAM-ID ENVIRONMENT DIVISION ...

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guptavik1

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• Aug 27th, 2011

(A) S9(3)V99 COMP-3 will occupy (N/2 +1) if N=Even and (N+1)/2 if N=Odd. Here N=5 which is odd. Hence, No of bytes used for storage internally=3 bytes (B) S9(1)V99 COMP will occupy based ...

talluri

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• Jul 27th, 2011

Comp-3 will occupies 3bytes

comp doesn't allow the decimal values

Babjee talluri

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87chumma

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• Aug 27th, 2010

When the goback is specified in the mainprogram, the control will go back to the runjcl from which step the control came. It will start executing the next step in the JCL if available, the program will continue normally.

Kariab

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• Apr 8th, 2010

Goback ends the processing

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The Disposition Parameter in the JCL is Share ( DISP=SHR ) and Cobol program opens file in " Extend " mode. In this scenarion what will happen to that file?

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jedianiki  

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• Member Since Mar-2010 | Mar 24th, 2010

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The DISP=SHR in JCL means that the file is already existing and that it is not exclusively locked for your own use. Other user can still access this file. And the EXTEND in the COBOL program means that, when you open the file, the record pointer will be positioned on the last row of the record and every insert you'll make will be appended on the last position of the file.

jedianiki

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• Mar 24th, 2010

The DISP=SHR in JCL means that the file is already existing and that it is not exclusively locked for your own use. Other user can still access this file. And the EXTEND in the COBOL program means tha...

pkraja101

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• Feb 6th, 2010

In this time it will respond to the COBOL program and we can successfully write in the old source program.

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gopalchand

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• Nov 29th, 2009

Answer is (a)Clarification :(i) READ SAMPLE-FILE AT END MOVE "YES" TO NO-MORE-RECS.In the above statement, We can't move any information  to  88 Level (This is Condit...

Karunagaran Molliya Gounder

• Dec 16th, 2006

answer is a) (i) and (ii)

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