COBOL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 19524

COMP?

2 5836

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 9728

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

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 36887

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 30310

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 8563

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 19541

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

2 12438

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2165

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 30196

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

1866

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 14762

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 26299

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 13325

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

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 25180


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

2170


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?

2003


Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

917


what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

1868


Can a Search can be done on a table with or without Index?

1039


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

1879


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.

3941


What are the various section in data division and briefly explain them.

906


What is static and dynamic call in cobol?

780


How to use the same COBOL program in Batch and CICS on lines? explain with an example

2101


) how do u code after getting data?

1784


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

867


IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

2081


How do you get the data to code the BMS macro?

1688


What is the problem of ordered sequential files access?

898