This sample program explains how to define a PS(Physical Sequential) File in different divisions and the steps to access it in the procedure division. Steps: Environment Division –> Input-Output Section –> File-Control . Here COBOL File name is given to the PS file and a linking between the cobol program and PS file is established.
Continue and Next Sentence in COBOL are No Operation statements which does nothing except to pass control to the statement after the scope terminators. But the difference is the place that it passes the control to. CONTINUE: Continue gives the control after the next explicit scope terminator. Explicit Scope terminators are END-IF, END-PERFORM, END-EVALUATE, etc.
Call is the COBOL Verb to transfer control to another program from a program. Simple CALL, call by reference, and call by content are the different types. CALL verb is used within the procedure division to transfer the control to the subprogram and once the subprogram processing is over, control comes back to the main
As DB2/SQL and COBOL field declarations are different, It is important to have Equivalanet COBOL data types to the corresponding DB2 table columns in COBOL programs to process the data correctly. More importantly, the precompiler uses the equivalent SQL data types for the declared Host variables. So if the host variable declaration is not correct,
These Questions were asked in the first round of Interviews for DBS, Hyderabad from Optimum solutions. How a transaction is defined in CICS? What is the use of TSQs & TDQs? What are the ways that a transaction can be auto-initiated? How to initiate a transaction using TDQ? Where does this need to be defined?
RETURN IN CICS is to return the control back to the next higher level which is either main program or CICS(Operating System).It is very useful in programs where there are sub programs involved in exchanging the data Or screens involved where there is a need to preserve the data and use it after the user
In JCL, SYSOUT is an Optional Keyword parameter that indicates that the dataset is a system output data set. Basically it assigns an output class to the SYSOUT dataset. As each class would be attached to a device to handle the output, the desired output would be routed to that device. Syntax: SYSOUT= { class
In JCL, Region is an Optional Keyword Parameter which can be specified at JOB and/or Step Level. Region Parameter in JCL indicates that the amount of storage (Virtual or Real) that the JOB or step can use to execute. It specifies an upper limit of memory to be used and thus the job/step can use
CICS Scenario Based Interview Questions Apart from the basics, CICS has scope to ask many questions by giving a scenario. Here I am giving the list of few scenario based ones. I have two CICS PROGRAMS – PROGA & PROGB. 1st Prog should pass some data to Program B and using this data Program B
Apart from reading forward, VSAM KSDS file can be read Backwards starting from a specified Key value. READPREV command is used for this purpose. To read a record in reverse order starting from a key needs to establish a starting point first which can be done using STARTBR, then READNEXT and READPREV does the backwards
