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

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In a program, variables are used but no DB2 involved in it. Can you call it as host variables??

EDS,

4 8186

Hi All, Can anyone tell me how we can MOVE value of a X(19) variable to a S9(17) COMP-3 variable? Answer with an Example will be of great help.

EDS,

6 27188

Hi All, how is sign is stored in S9(17) comp-3 variable. Answer with an Example will be of great help.

EDS,

5 15216

i have the job which has written updated 100 records into the table and for 101th record it got abended and i want to start the job again and should wirte from 101th record not from 1st record..how to do it..?

6 12282

what are the control characters used in reports

1 5395

1.Can we define condition-name conditions in FD entry.

11 15217

1.What is the limit of linkage section?

4 21335

can we use the two 01 level in file discription ?

6 9942

Hai friends why we need to read a file before re-write a record?

L&T,

7 13104

what are the limitations of Inline Perform?

Zensar,

3 8667

What is IMPACT analysis?

IBM,

2 13634

We have 3 programms A,B,C.In the middle of the program A the controls goes to program B and in the middle of the program B control wants to go program C,after completion of program C again control comes to program B and again after completion of program B control comes to program A.How the process will takes and what are the controls we use for that process.If it is possible anybody of you explain with example?

IBM,

5 10764

how to submit a jcl by cobol program. clear me with an example.

HCL,

3 18384

Explain about level numbers?

3 17382

Explain about Redefines cluse?

iGate,

3 7148

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Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

999

) How do u handle errors in BMS macro?

1908

how to access the file from prodution from changeman tool and to submit a file to production

7441

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol?

1115

System Testing for Mainframe Developers What is System Testing? integration testing ? what's the procedure ..

2014

how do you reference the variable block file formats from cobol programs

1183

How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

1079

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

1092

Name the sections present in data division.

1175

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

1225

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.

2392

if we have " ibm mainframe ",in that how to remove first and last leading space eg:"ibm mainframe" like that the answer we need

1291

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and PIC9v99?

1280

which is Best IBM Mainframe Training and Placement Institute in Ameerpet Hyderabad

1452

Explain how to differentiate call by context by comparing it to other calls?

1129

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