Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Just the usual. It is not possible that the enforced corruption of the English language to impose specific gender on non-gender-specific use of specific gender words means that people can't understand each other any more? Sad, but I guess it is possible. I'll note for future reference that whatever...

For instance, consider CURSOR as a variable which you'll use in your program. In most of the languages, you can use the variable in the logic of the program later, only if it is declared somewhere before it is used. Same is the case with CURSOR, unless system has its definition, it won't recognize ...

PGMA A PIC X(10) PGMB B PIC X(12) (Linkage Section) No possible abend just in doing it, but if B is used as a target for anything, it could destroy the two bytes immediately following A, which may or may not be significant. Why it can destroy the 2 bytes? We are passing "smaller area" to ...

Interviewers seem to think it is a question which separates the COBOL Men from the COBOL Boys. There is no practical benefit in knowing the answer. Although the question can be easily located by search-engineing, I'd guess there are also wrong answers out there. Are there some COBOL Women and COBOL...

Hello, This is another question which I founf weird...how can one identify by seeing the program that it is called statically or dynamically? I don't know if there is a way. Both type of sub program will have PROCEDURE DIVISION USING... but will there be something different than this? After searchin...

Thanks Anuj. I knew that there is no difference but was not sure about the OPEN statement. Thanks for the clarification.

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One of the question which was tough to answer was, if we are passing X(12) from a program PGM-A to other Program say PGM-B which has X(10) as receving field. If we do so, will it generate an abend? If yes, what abend will you get and if not, what happens to the extra 2 bytes which were passed?

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If we declare the curosr in procedure division and if we declare it in WS Section, wil lthat make any difference in the two? If yes, what are the differneces.