Question on Cobol

[tpkumar77]

Hello all, I was asked the below question during one of my interivew:

Suppose I give you a prinout of a Cobol Program( its an online program,without the EXEC Stmts,Without File Declarations )how can you determine if this is an Online or Batch? ( The interviewer insisted that it is an online program bt wthout EXEC statements)

Could any one please tell me how can you determine if the given program is online? or batch with the conditions specified above?


In a static call,what is the order of compilation :
Main Program
Sub Program

[Anuj Dhawan]

If this has to do with IMS DC programs, you won't have FILE-SECTION coded under data-division and PROCEDURE-DIVISION would be coded with some terminal PCB like

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PROCEDURE DIVISION  USING L100-LOGICAL-TERMINAL-PCB

. If above two "symptoms" are there -- that's an IMS DC (online) program. Not sure about CICS though.

[tpkumar77]

Thanks Anuj,
Incase if it was IMS as u mentioned ,definetly by above thing we can find .
But the interview and the requirement was purely for CICS..so was just looking if some one can throw some light on that part.

[Anuj Dhawan]

Your initial question didn't talk about CICS so I answered for IMS DC.

I don't do CICS -- so can't answer that appropriate. Please have some patience; some one will be around soon.

[tpkumar77]

ohh sorry Anuj,that was my fault..I should have mentioned it as CICS

[Natarajan]

CICS programs have atleast a EXEC CICS RETURN statement.

If EXEC CICS not there... it can be called program (calling program is a cics program.)

If interviewer talking about cics called program, it will contain linkage section with
commarea in it.