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 10071

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

2 21450

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

CGI, Principal Finance,

6 14658

Can we use goto statement in inline_perform ?

IBM,

5 10505

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 30286

can we use go to statement inline-perform?

IBM,

7 13159

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

2 9320

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 11873

What is normalisation?

IBM,

2 6881

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

Polaris,

6 9779

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

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

14 74330

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

IBM,

6 16233

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 12699

What is EIBCALEN? Why it is used?

ADP,

9 37964

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

5 8870

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What rules are followed by the search verb.

1111

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol?

1248

Write the code implementing the perform … varying.

1062

Define cobol?

1400

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

7547

how to convert the recors form vsam file to db2 table tru file aid

3262

What is inspect in cobol ?

1298

How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

1208

I have a program with an Array of 5000 occurences which is being passed from 5 sub levels to the front end screen. Thess 5 programs using each 5*2 = 10 different arrays with size as 5000. This is causing the transaction to utilize more storage consupmtion. I am looking to reduce the storage consumption. As part of that initially i thought Dynamic array may solve my problem. After viewing the comments given i see its same as normal array. IS there any other way we can resolve this issue?

1650

Have you used comp and comp-3 in your project? And how?

2482

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and PIC9v99?

1338

What is comp-1 and comp-2?

1230

I have File 1 occurs 5 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE and MECH). I have File 2 occurs 10 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE,CIVIL,CHEMICAL and MECH). In FIle 1 and FIle 2 , for matching Employee-DEPT (Only MECH) , we need to move entire records from file1 to file 2. We should not use 2D array. Your help is needed here.

1566

Discuss about changing dataset name in proc.

1234

What is perform what is varying?

1166

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