What is the purpose of using SYNC in COBOL? Can someone explain the purpose of using SYNC in COBOL? Thanks #2 SYNC is used for faster computations… it creates slack bytes(unused space)….. Ex: 01 ws-var s9(04) comp it starts from 3rd byte. 01 ws-var s9(04) comp sync it starts from 4th byte… Thanks&Regrads, vijay #3 […]
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PERFORM WITH TEST AFTER UNTIL The following COBOL program depicts the use of PERFORM WITH TEST AFTER UNTIL     01 WS-SUB  PIC 9 VALUE ZEROS.        PERFORM 20000-FIRST-PARA WITH TEST AFTER UNTIL WS-SUB=5        DISPLAY ‘PARA NAME IS  10000-FIRST-PARA’    Â
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The following simple COBOL program depicts the use of     01 WS-SUB PIC 9(3) VALUE ZEROS.        PERFORM VARYING WS-SUB FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL WS-SUB=5         DISPLAY ‘INLINE PERFORM DEPICTED BY MAINFRAMEWIZARD.COM’ INLINE PERFORM DEPICTED BY MAINFRAMEWIZARD.COM      Â
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The following COBOL program depicts the use of     01 SALARY PIC 9(9)  VALUE ZEROS.     01 TAX   PIC 9(9)  VALUE ZEROS.     01 SEX   PIC X   VALUE SPACES.          WHEN SALARY 10000  ALSO SEX=’M’   Â
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How to create dynamic array in COBOL Is it possible to create dynamic array in COBOl. I have to declare an internal table in a cobol program, but I do not know how much data it can hold. Is it possible to dynamically adjust the size of the array? “; ; ; ;
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max length of data passed from JCL to COBOL One of interview question on Jcl, I faced was what is the maximum length of data that can be passed  as Parm from JCL to COBOL. As I have read somewhere that its 100 bytes of data that is maximum that can be passed from JCL
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEARCH AND SEARCH ALL The following mainframe tutorial list down the basic differences between the COBOL SEARCH and SEARCH ALL. SEARCH SEARCH ALL 1) Used for sequential search in COBOL tables.                   1) Used for Binary search. 2) The entries do not need to  be in any order.                  2) The
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Can we read empty VSAM file using COBOL We know that we face abend when we try to read an empty vsam file in a cobol program, some file status 35 comes. We generally would place a low value record (null record as we refer) to overcome this problem. But I fail to understand what
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The following COBOL program depicts the use of     01 PARA-NUM PIC 9 VALUE ZEROS.        DISPLAY ‘PARA NAME IS  10000-FIRST-PARA’        DISPLAY ‘PARA NAME IS  20000-FIRST-PARA’.        DISPLAY ‘PARA NAME IS  25000-SECOND-PARA’.      Â
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EVALUATE ARITHMETIC EXPRESSION The following COBOL program depicts the use of EVALUATE ARITH EXPRESSION     01 MARKS-OBTAINED  PIC 9(4)  VALUE ZEROS.     01 MARKS-TOTAL   PIC 9(4)  VALUE ZEROS.        MOVE 900  TO MARKS-OBTAINED.        MOVE 1000 TO MARKS-TOTAL.   Â
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