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by chintu1680
Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mainframe certifications
Replies: 2
Views: 5942

Mainframe certifications

Hai , Are the Brain Bench certifications have that much importance as they are taken online and anyone can cheat . Are these certifications taken in to consideration by the employers. How much importance do they have when compared to other certifications. And also what are the other technical certif...
by chintu1680
Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:36 pm
Forum: COBOL
Topic: Subscripting
Replies: 1
Views: 4184

Subscripting

Hi, Can anybody answer this question. Which of the following statements can not be supported? (a) subscripting enables us to write a more compact code in the PROCEDURE DIVISION (b) subscripting enables us to refer to any element of a table by the same dataname with the facility of identifying the pa...
by chintu1680
Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:37 pm
Forum: COBOL
Topic: Hi
Replies: 1
Views: 4336

Hi

I just have a simple question. Do any body have an idea of Maples at Hyd.
Do they provide with the placements . Please answer.
by chintu1680
Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:04 pm
Forum: COBOL
Topic: Plz any senoir help me
Replies: 1
Views: 4446

Plz any senoir help me

Hi, Iam from a non-it background. I have been studying COBOL, JCL and DB2 for couple of months. Now iam pretty much comfortable with all these. I dont have any real time experience. How should i practice these things so that i become more comfortable with the working on mainframe. Can anybody guide ...
by chintu1680
Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:03 pm
Forum: JCL
Topic: Plz help a beginner
Replies: 1
Views: 5945

Plz help a beginner

Hi, Iam from a non-it background. I have been studying COBOL, JCL and DB2 for couple of months. Now iam pretty much comfortable with all these. I dont have any real time experience. How should i practice these things so that i become more comfortable with the working on mainframe. Can anybody guide ...
by chintu1680
Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:54 pm
Forum: COBOL
Topic: WHEN TO USE COMP FIELD
Replies: 2
Views: 6750

comp,comp-2,comp-3

Hai, when u declare a data item as comp then the internal representation is in the form of pure binary . There should be no decimal points . This is generally used for the subscripts. when u declare a data item as comp-1 or comp-2 then the internal representation will be in floating point form . com...
by chintu1680
Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:27 pm
Forum: JCL
Topic: JCL
Replies: 1
Views: 5844

JCL

Hi, Iam from a non-it background. I have been studying COBOL, JCL and DB2 for couple of months. Now iam pretty much comfortable with all these. I dont have any real time experience. How should i practice these things so that i become more comfortable with the working on mainframe. Can anybody guide ...
by chintu1680
Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:46 pm
Forum: JCL
Topic: Cond codes.
Replies: 5
Views: 17678

Thanks

Hi Dave,
Thanks a lot for clearing out my confusion.
by chintu1680
Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:04 pm
Forum: JCL
Topic: Cond codes.
Replies: 5
Views: 17678

Cond codes.

Hi, My question is about the cond codes. //JOB3 JOB (A123), 'DAVID ZOWIE' //STEP1 EXEC PGM= PROGRAM1 //STEP2 EXEC PGM= PROGRAM2 //STEP3 EXEC PGM= PROGRAM3, // COND=(8,GE),(80,LE STEP1) // CAN ANY BODY EXPLAIN ME ABOUT THIS IN DETAIL. I AM A LEARNER .IAM LITTLE BIT CONFUSED ABOUT THE COND CODES. [/co...
by chintu1680
Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:22 am
Forum: JCL
Topic: JCL
Replies: 1
Views: 5948

Instream data set

Hi , Generally the input data is stored in a file and the file name is given in the DSN parameter. Now what does an instream data set means is coding the input data in the SYSIN DD stmt .It is coded in the following way. eg://SYSIN DD * <lines of input data> /* OR eg://SYSIN DD DATA <lines of input ...