pls give me the answers of the following questons asap?
1)To use search all,the table should be in sorted order .iam loading the table from one of the pds members.the pds members data is not sorted order .How will i load the table in sorted order?(u should not use in jcl)?
2) how to get the actual length of alpha numeric item?
3)what is ut-s means with respect to select statment?
4)is dynamic allocation is posible in cobol?if yes how?
5)what is the difference between on siize error and on overflow?
to sort ur table try with either bubble sort(if the number of element is less) or try with insertion sort...just see whatever logic is most suitable in ur case.
6. Normaly at max you can pass 32k of data through linkage section. but in some case you can pass 64k provided if allowed.
correct me if i m wrong.
Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Chennai,India
Hi Rambabu,
2) Dint get what u r trying to say? PIC X is alphanumeric, place a display before it and u get to see the length of the var...
3) UT-S implies Utility-Sequential(Utility is the Device Class and Sequential is the Method/Organization)
5) When the receiving field is lesser than the Passing field u get the Overflow error and the values passed will be truncated. So, u define the Var with the cond ON SIZE ERROR -> Do this.
1) Use the SORT in your COBOL program for sorting data in your PDS and then move it to your table.
2) Use INSPECT working-storage variable TALLYING counter FOR CHARACTERS. The lentgh will be stored in the counter variable.
3) Sree's answer is right.
4) Dynamic allocation of what? You can dynamically call any subroutine, for that you need to give DYNAM in ur compiler option. Or call subroutine with identifier and not with literal.
5) In my view both are almost same. You can handle ON SIZE error but don't know whether we can handle overflow condition.
6) I don't know the limit of linkage section but the limit of PARM is 100. i.e you can values from JCL using PARM upto 100.
