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

COBOL Interview Questions

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What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 20306

COMP?

2 6401

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 10675

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

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 38202

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 31463

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 9226

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 20912

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

2 13345

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2573

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 30949

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

2135

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 15665

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 28405

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 14252

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

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 26988

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

1588

Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

1114

How you can characterize tables in cobol?

1201

what is s000 u4087 error? please give the all error codes in cobol,jcl.

17878

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

1293

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99 in COBOL?

1331

Difference between array and sub-script ?

1656

Write the code implementing the perform … varying.

1062

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

2540

What is the difference between Structured COBOL Programming and Object Oriented COBOL programming?

1115

How to remove the spaces at the end of each record in the output file of variable length, via cobol program?

1167

IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

2374

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

1230

i want a program using by if, evaluate , string, unstring, perform, occurs?

4721

Why occurs cannot be used in 01 level in COBOL?

1158

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