EMPTY File condition check using JCL utilities

7 years ago

There are scenarios where you need to check if the input is Empty File before performing further actions. This ensures…

Product Backlog Prioritization – Tips and Tricks

7 years ago

Product Backlog Refinement consists of Creating & Refining User Stories, Estimating User Stories & Product Backlog Prioritization. It is the…

INSPECT statement in COBOL Programs

7 years ago

The INSPECT statement can be used to tally the number of occurrences of specific character strings, to replace characters by…

DB2 Cursor use in COBOL Programs

7 years ago

DB2 Cursor builds a results table to hold all the rows retrieved by executing a SELECT statement. DB2 uses a…

DoD (Definition of Done) Vs DoR (Definition of Ready)

7 years ago

Many teams use the Definition of Done (DoD) to check if a user story is finished and the product is…

Definition of Ready – Importance in Agile

7 years ago

Definition of Ready is a set of agreements that let you know when a user story is really done, the team…

Definition of Done – Importance in Agile

7 years ago

Definition of Done is an agreement between Development Team and the Product Owner on what needs to be completed for…

Effective User Story – Card, conversation, confirmation

7 years ago

3C's is an Effective User Story technique. 3Cs: Card, Conversation, and Confirmation. The Card is the index card that the User Story…

Effective User Story Techniques INVEST DEEP SMART 3Cs

7 years ago

INVEST, DEEP , SMART & Three C's are Effective User Story Techniques. INVEST is a useful mnemonic established by Bill Wake…

Scrum Interview Questions and Answers – III

7 years ago

Scrum Interview Questions and Answers: Scrum is a framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and…

Scrum Interview Questions and Answers – II

7 years ago

Scrum Interview Questions and Answers: Scrum is a framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and…

Scrum Interview Questions and Answers – I

7 years ago

Scrum Interview Questions and Answers: Scrum is a framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and…

Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers – II

7 years ago

Scrum Master Interview Q & A contains a list of top interview questions and answers which will help you to prepare…

ROWSET Processing using Cursor – DB2

7 years ago

ROWSET processing is a group of rows for the result set of a query that is returned by a single…

Arrays Handling using index and subscript

7 years ago

Arrays are data structures that are used to simplify coding and improve processing efficiency. It is a linear data structure and…

SSRANGE vs NOSSRANGE compiler option

7 years ago

SSRANGE: Arrays in COBOL are known as tables. An array is a linear data structure and is a collection of…

FTOV – Convert FB file to VB file format

7 years ago

You can convert an FB data set to a VB data set with OUTFIL's FTOV parameter. Each VB output record…

VTOF – Convert VB file to FB file format

7 years ago

VTOF (Variable to Fixed), in mainframe environments, data files are often stored in either Fixed Blocked (FB) or Variable Blocked (VB) formats. While VB files…

VLSCMP and VLSHRT use in VB file

7 years ago

VLSCMP and VLSHRT are the utilities used with VB files. In VB records always add 4 to the starting position.…

JCL Interview Questions with Answers

7 years ago

The JCL interview questions and answers are intended for those with a working knowledge of JCL as a programmer. This…

DB2 Interview Questions with Answers

7 years ago

The DB2 interview questions and answers are intended for those with a working knowledge of DB2 as a programmer. This…

COBOL Interview Questions with Answers

7 years ago

COBOL or Common Business Oriented Language is an English like compiled programming language used mainly for business COBOL Interview questions…

INTERSECT and EXCEPT use in SQL Queries

7 years ago

An INTERSECT operation retrieves the matching set of distinct values (not rows) from two columns. The INTERSECT ALL returns the…

UNION vs UNION ALL use in SQL Queries

7 years ago

A UNION operation combines two sets of columns and removes duplicates. The UNION ALL expression does the same but does…

PARM: How to use in SORT JCL with examples

7 years ago

DYNALLOC PARM: This option requests the dynamic allocation of SORTWK data sets. DYNALLOC=OFF can be specified to override a DYNALLOC=ON…