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 51776

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,

2544

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 36828

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 6490

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 21446

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 10270

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

Xansa,

6 16606

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

Xansa,

2 7415

What are decleratives in COBOL ?

Xansa,

1 16067

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

Patni, Xansa,

2 7634

What are the differences bitween cobol and cobol-2?

Wipro,

1 8429

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 21284

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

How to remove 2 duplicate records and copy only one using job control language?

1219

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

2132

What are different data types in cobol?

1322

How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

1135

how do you reference the ksds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1191

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

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?

2276

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1148

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

1164

How to know whether the module is dynamical or statistical?

1142

Write a cobol program making use of the redefine clause.

1183

input= ,,,, mainframe training ,,, hyderabad .... location.... output1=$ mainframe training in hyderabad location$ output2=**** mainframe training in hyderabad location ****. In this pgn when we give input considering the spaces the output is displayed in this format.Like in the place of ,,,, $ should be displayed likewise.So please helpmeout.

2221

What is the default value(s) for an initialize? What keyword will allow for an override of the default?

1119

here is my requirement A1 is alphanumeric with value 'A1B2C3D4' as defined below 05 A1 PIC X(8) VALUE IS 'A1B2C3D4' but i need to have A2,A3 as ABCD & 1234 repectively...... A2 = ABCD A3 = 1234 Can you please explain me what are the different ways to do it?

7896

Why occurs cannot be used in 01 level in COBOL?

1160

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