COBOL Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

COBOL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is mean by maxcc

Syntel,

7 51762

I have to write to a outfile where the number of records in that file should be the header of that file using IMS.. can anyone help me in this issue

IBM,

2538

What is the Linkage section? What is the Use and Why the parm length use alway "PARM-LENGTH PIC S9(4) or PIC S9 (4) COMP." any reason?.Please let me know any one... Cheers,Prasad

Syntel,

8 36815

How can we find out wether to declare the data items like Integer, Char,Comp? If comp types how can we decide wether it is Comp and Comp3.How it is? Please Explain... Cheers.

Syntel,

1 6479

Write a program to concert an Indexed file into Sequential file?

Covansys,

1 5955

I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ?

CGI, Xansa,

8 21431

Write the syntax of a two dimensional array?

Honeywell, Xansa,

8 29059

I have a sequential file of 100 records. How do I load the records into a two dimensional array ?

IBM, Xansa,

3 22267

What are subroutines ? and how do we pass data to the sub routines?

Xansa,

2 10262

Should I use STOP RUN in the sub program??why?

Xansa,

6 16592

should I use Go back in the main program ? Yes we can use Go back in main program as well.

Xansa,

2 7414

What are decleratives in COBOL ?

Xansa,

1 16062

Have you code any new programs in COBOL ? What is the functionality of the programs?

Patni, Xansa,

2 7629

What are the differences bitween cobol and cobol-2?

Wipro,

1 8422

Program A calls program B. Will the working storage variables declared in program B be initialized every time it is called by program A or will the values be retained until the end of program A?

7 21277

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

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

1232

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between an obtain next and obtain first? Actually in which topic will we use dis???Plz explain it clearly

3162

I have program P1 which calls file F1 which has 100 records and following structure 001 .................. 002 .................. 003 .................. 098 .................... 099 ................... 100 .................... Now I want to read these files and write these records in file F2 in following manner. 001 ...... 051 ..... 002 ...... 052 ..... 003 ...... 053 ..... .......... ....... .......... ....... .......... ....... 048 ........ 098 ...... 049 .......... 099 ....... 050 .... 100 ......

12376

Give some examples of command terminators?

1255

What is cobol?

1238

How do define dynamic array in cobol. how do you define single dimensional array and multidimensional array in your cobol?

1241

What is amode(31)

1172

How do we get current date from system with century in COBOL?

1375

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the ksds file records into your cobol program?

1143

How do you reference the following file formats from cobol programs?

1162

Name the divisions, which are available in a cobol program?

1235

What guidelines should be followed to write a structured cobol prgm?

1148

how do you reference the rrds file formats from cobol programs

1575

I have a File that has duplicate records. I need only those records that occur more than thrice.?

9887

How do you reference the fixed block file formats from cobol programs

1227

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