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

COBOL Interview Questions

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can we use variable picture clause as xx.99 in cobol.

3 10252

what is dynamic array in cobol? what is the difference b/w array and table in cobol?

2 21604

When search all is used in cobol program without sorted input data?

CGI, Principal Finance,

6 14890

Can we use goto statement in inline_perform ?

IBM,

5 10692

what is the difference between occurs and occurs depending on? i dont think so there is the difference in storage..then why we should use occurs depending on?

TCS, Tech Mahindra,

9 30627

can we use go to statement inline-perform?

IBM,

7 13404

how to change picture class of copy book variable inside program?

2 9424

What will happen if a variable is declared as below.. Explain with an example? Working storage section:- 01 WS-VARX PIC X(9) VALUE SPACES. 01 WS-VARN REDEFINES WS-VARX PIC 9(9).

8 12121

What is normalisation?

IBM,

2 7006

How to declare if emp-name = AAAAA""BBB in working-storage section. After display emp-name should print like AAAAA""BB

Polaris,

6 10013

How to read records from flat file in reverse order through COBOL program?

Accenture, Broadridge, IBM, MAT, Polaris, SPIC, Syntel, TCS, Wipro,

14 74997

I have 2 dimensional array with having 100 elements. So how to find the 11th item in an array?

IBM,

6 16458

soc-7 is a bad data,invalid data. when ever we are moving the alphabets in the position of numeric then we got this abend. so my question is if o1 ws-data pic 9(1) value passing the alphabet some x. then we got soc-7 or not? i want clarification ?

CitiGroup, IBM,

7 12928

What is EIBCALEN? Why it is used?

ADP,

9 38225

i want to learn mainframes. i completed MCA ,whats the future of mainframes

5 9051

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

1187

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1347

What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1276

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

1388

explain sorting techniques in cobol program?

1248

Write the code implementing the perform … varying.

1122

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2185

Hi pls anybody tell me about " ANALYSIS DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND ESTIMATION OF TASK " (in real time project)."I want to update a sequential file in my project" for that purpose i need both structures i mean analysis document and estimation of task.

2203

What are 77 levels used for?

1152

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?

2333

Explain about different table spaces.

1155

How you can read the file from bottom?

1197

Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

1108

Give some examples of command terminators?

1327

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

17935

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