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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 9538

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 26539

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

ADP, Syntel,

4 21677

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 12806

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

2597

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

6 18272

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 10364

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 36039

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

1 10715

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 12092

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

2 9175

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

MMM,

1 20230

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

4 9110

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

2 19286

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

TCS,

5 15882

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

1998

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

1097

When is inspect verb is used in cobol?

1255

What is the usage of comp fields in cobol?

1185

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

1105

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1144

What are the different types of condition in cobol and write their forms.

1113

Which is not true about evaluate statement

2456

What is the use of intialize verb?

1254

2597

Write the code to count the sum of n natural numbers.

1206

What are declaratives and what are their uses in cobol?

1202

What are the different rules of SORT operation?

1138

In which area will you utilize 88 level items in cobol?

1161

How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

1218

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