COBOL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 18936

COMP?

2 5378

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 8988

How is sign stored in Packed Decimal fields and Zoned Decimal fields?

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 35730

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 29406

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 8024

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 18638

What is the difference between a DYNAMIC and STATIC call in COBOL?

2 11762

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

1978

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 29543

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

1695

What will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in a stand-alone COBOL program i.e. a program which is not calling any other program ?

3 14038

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 24940

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 12734

Can you REWRITE a record in an ESDS file? Can you DELETE a record from it?

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 23852


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What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

941


What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?

683


Define cobol?

876


How to find out the closest prime number of an input number? I believe it has something to do with SEARCH and COBOL Linear Array.

3731


What is the utilization of copybook in cobol?

667






) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

1641


Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

675


What is rmode(24)

686


Write a program that uses move corresponding.

686


I have one ps file in which there are 3 fileds emp_no,emp_name and leave_app.this ps file information give the detail of employee which is going to apply for leave.suppose emp_no=113430,emp_name=ajay,leave_app=1 that means he is going to apply for 1 day leave.and accordingling the table in db2 will be updated means if he has that no of leave in his account then he will get dat leave and updated acc. in table(leave_balance=previous leave present in table-leave_app).Now i want to check whther the updated result is correct or not by comparing the two ps file using IEBCOMPARE or icetool so what is going to be the two ps file and how its is going to be compare.

2021


can anybody post me about file-aid and changemen tools pls and give me reference if any mainframe guys are there

1915


please..could u give an example about USAGE IS POINTER ..and explain why and when we use it ?

1964


how to refer the data field?

1816


Can you please let me know the centre name of INS certification in Kolkata.

1724


In which area will you utilize 88 level items in cobol?

732