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COBOL Interview Questions

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Re: 01 NAME1 PIC X(13) VALUE "COBOL PROGRAMMING". 01 NAME2 PIC X(13). now I want to display the value of NAME1 in reverse order i.e value should be displayed as "GNIMMARGORP LOBOC" HOW can I do that ??? please let me know if any one knows it.

IBM,

2 9646

How to read records which is in sequential file in reverse order ? Exp. 1 2 3 4 5 . i want 5 4 3 2 1?please clear my doubt any one

IBM,

10 26849

What is "Call by content" and "call by reference"?

ADP, Syntel,

4 21856

What is the difference beetween Arrays and Tables in Cobol? please dont give the answer that arrays in cobol terminology is called tables......

BirlaSoft,

3 12937

i made it to stage 3 of an interview process wednessday they will quiz my knowledge again face to face for an analyst role recruiter said it will be based on Business requirements system is cobol and good ideas what they might ask etc

2641

which is better comp or comp-3 in terms of memory utilization?

6 18539

Move Zeroes to I move 5 to j perform para1 varying I from 10 by -2 until I = 0 display j. para1. Add 5 to j. What’ll be the value after execution of display stmt. A) 35 B) 40 C) 30 D) 25 please explain how?

5 10563

WE HAVE 5 DIFFERENT RECORDING MODE IN COBOL.FIXED, FIXEDBLOCK, VARIABLE, VARIABLEBLOCK AND UNDEFINED. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE AMONG ALL AND WHICH TYPE OF FORMAT SHOULD BE USED WHEN

Infosys,

3 36205

we can use set true for condition names.. similarly can we code set to false in cobol pgm? will it work?

1 10792

01 a pic s9(5) value -12345, if we disply a , the sign will overpunched with last digit but i need to get the miuns sign in the result?

7 12325

01 b pic +9(4) How many bytes it will take for storage???

2 9291

how to resolve the file status 47.......

MMM,

1 20376

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

4 9265

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

2 19395

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

TCS,

5 16116

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What are the rules of the move verb?

1325

How did the release of cobol/370 version 1.3 improve the performance of release 1.1?

1135

) How do u handle errors in BMS macro?

2018

What is redefines clause in COBOL?

1351

Why occurs cannot be used in 01 level in COBOL?

1206

What are the access modes of START statement?

1331

Is it possible that the redefines clause has different picture clauses compared to the one it redefined?

1214

How do u write test cases?

2112

how do you reference the rrds file formats from cobol programs

1663

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

2054

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

2280

what is search and searchall?what is the diffrence between them?give an best example?

6934

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search? What are the pertinent cobol commands?

1155

What is rmode(24)

1199

What is the difference between Call and a Link?

1267

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