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What is zonal decimal in Cobol?
Mainframer18
- 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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INSPECT verb
can we use "'" in BEFORE or AFTER phrase for limiting the length of the string to be searched in the INSPECT verb
Mainframer18
- 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
- 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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There is a file whose ORGANISATION is INDEXED.you want to read the records from the file in RANDOM fashion as well as sequentially. Then which of the access mode would you specify? a.SEQUENTIAL b.RANDOM c.DYNAMIC d .ACCESS MODE has nothing to do with it
jassi
- Oct 4th, 2007
Answer is we will go for Dynamic Access Mode. Because dynamic will first start from the record like random access then it will go for sequential access in file. So random and sequential both are done.
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consider the following FD FILE-1 01 REC-1 PIC X(80) ...... WORKING-STORAGE SECTION 01 W-REC PIC X(90) ........ PROCEDURE DIVISION FIRST-PARA ....... READ FILE-1 INTO W-REC AT END MOVE 1 TO EOF-FLAG which of the following is true with respect to the above? a.REC-1 will contain nothing and W-REC will contain the contains of the record read b.REC-1 and W-REC contain the same data c.syntex is invalid and error will occur d.REC-1 and W-REC must be of same size
