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 8793

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 24370

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

ADP, Syntel,

4 20252

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 11627

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

2200

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

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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 9079

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 34742

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

1 10150

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 10373

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

2 8429

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

MMM,

1 19120

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

4 7934

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

2 18268

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

TCS,

5 14187


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Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

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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?

1888


Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

771


What is amode(31)

807


Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

775






What is the default value(s) for an initialize and what keyword allows for an override of the default?

827


What is the default value(s) for an initialize? What keyword will allow for an override of the default?

751


System Testing for Mainframe Developers What is System Testing? integration testing ? what's the procedure ..

1692


IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

1983


What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

796


i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

977


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.

1218


What are the rules of the move verb?

813


how to move the records from file to array table. give with code example

2312


can you please let me know if there is any walkins for COBOL/PLI/DB2/IMS/JCL in pune other than IBM and ITC infotech

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