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Kumar ,

Whet is it that you question about the code snippet you posted?

NG

Can someone tell me why the ?INITIALIZE? verb is inefficient? One of my current assignments is to go through all of our programs and replace the ?INITIALIZE? verb with group moves.

Thanks in advance,

NG

Could someone please explain the concept of DB2 checkpoint-restart? I understand it is so the program can be started again at the point it abended without loosing any data, but I don?t understand how to use this in my program. Can someone please explain in simple terms?

Thank you,

NG

What is a sparsely populated COBOL Table? My written specifications include a requirement to create a ?Sparsely Populated? COBOL Table using the Branch number as the subscript. Branch numbers can be from 1000 to 9999. There are about 490 branches. The Cobol Table Layout will consist of: Branch Manag...

Thank You Dave, That is just what I was looking for. I?m working on my first job as a programmer, hired as a junior contractor. What a difference between school and the real world. I?m a little disappointed in how they treat contractors here though; they offer almost no help and treat us as the lowe...

I have a problem and hope someone has an idea. My problem is I need to do a VSAM Delete / Define. This is going to need to be done daily, but sometimes the VSAM file is not there, and the Delete returns a RC=08 causing the Job to abend. I do not care if the file is not there; I just need to delete i...