COBOL Interview Questions
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How to know whether the module is dynamical or statistical?

666

What is the difference between next sentence and continue in cobol programing language?

717

For rewrite, why is it mandatory that file needs to be opened?

627

Mention the guidelines to write a structured cobol program?

626

Explain how you can characterize tables in cobol?

652

What is the usage of comp fields in cobol?

664

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

731

How you can characterize tables in cobol?

727

There are 5 fields and 1000 records in a file. Unload it into an array. Write the syntax for declaration and how will you unload it.

941

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

899

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol? Could we utilize a similar copybook?

726

What are the cobol coding sheets?

673

Describe the cobol database components?

686

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol?

666

Why did you choose to work with ibm mainframe cobol programming?

638


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How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

662


I need to compare 3 variables(dates) and do some processing based on the earliest date. There could be more then 1 date record in any of the 3 fields. What is the best way to code this?

1815


If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between obtain next and obtain first?

649


Give some examples of command terminators?

763


Have you used the sort in your project?for this type of questions any working on real time project give the eg. with real time scenario.

2065






What kind of error is trapped by on size error option?

749


How to traceback if I am getting SOC7 or SOC4 abend? List down the steps

1320


how we sort two input files based on a common column and giving one o/p file please send me the coding logic?

1668


what is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any)?

707


What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search? What are the pertinent cobol commands?

725


How you can read the file from bottom?

667


Explain about different table spaces.

654


Explain how you can characterize tables in cobol?

652


EXPLAIN MAIN FRAME TESTING PROCESS...HOW TO FIX THE MAINFRAME BUGS?

2063


How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

670