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kappurajesh · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 5:44 am Post subject: Linkage section in cobol

1.what is purpose of linkage section

explain it.

2.Is there pointer concept in cobol

3. What is CoBOL command to find the total number of records in sequential, Indexed and relative files ?

4.How do read the indexed file using sequentially

5. How do summit cobol programs without using JCL

ofer71 · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject:

1. The LINKAGE SECTION explained in COBOL Programming Guide and in COBOL Languaeg Reference.
2. Pointers exaplained in COBOL Programming Guide and in COBOL Language Reference. You can find an interesting article about COBOL pointers Here.
3. I'm not familiar with such command.
4. Handling VSAM files is a well-explained section in the fine manual.
5. You can invoke COBOL program from any language (Assembler, C, PL1, REXX, NATURAL, Fortran etc.); You can run a CICS program; You can use the "CALL" TSO command.
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kolusu · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 9:39 am Post subject:

Kappurajesh,

Please state your level of experience when asking simple and basic interview questions. It gives us an opinion about the poster. we had a poster by name Mcmillan who was here asking stupid questions and it seems that he is teaching mainframes. That is scary !! I pity the students who learn from him. I just don't want to help another mcmillan. I would also like to know where you are getting trained.

Thanks,

Kolusu
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kappurajesh · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject:

Now I am learning two month course at Pollux Technology Limited, Chennai.

Beginners level

ofer71 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:51 am Post subject:

As a beginner, I started by reading the manuals.

O.
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Maton_Man · Beginner Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 123 Topics: 0

Ditto Ofer.

What the hell do they teach these people?

Get all your answers from the Internet - 101???
Don't read the f***ing manual???

When I was a trainee sysprog and had to work out how to do something, I got to ask one question from the senior sysprog. He was quite emphatic that I didn't waste that question and instructed me to read the manual first and then ask for help if I still needed it.

Remember, if you ask someone they might be wrong or give you misleading information but the manual should always be correct.
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