Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

But if the column is never referenced in the COBOL program, then? Will still be required to compile?

I agree with others, and it make sense that employer can not just stop you from going. As long as you have completed your notice period. In face if there are tasks remaining before you leave it is a lack from your manager side that for a 3 months notice he or she could not get the work done and or t...

Hi, I am working at a company which is using IMS DB and DB2 is nonexistent. However, I appeared in an interview where there was a question on DB2, and I need help for its answer. The question was like: If There is a COBOL-DB2 program which works well in production. Now if a programmer adds or say de...

What is difference between CSECT and DSECT? I read some defintion of then but they are tough to comphehend: A DSECT or Dummy Section provides the programmer with the ability to describe the layout of an area of storage without reserving virtual storage for the area that is described. The DSECT layou...

I am learning assembler or say trying to learn. Assembler is difficult language to code. Since COBOL compilers can covert COBOL code into machine language, what is need of assembler?