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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 9428

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 26218

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

ADP, Syntel,

4 21443

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 12667

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

2535

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

6 17966

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 10169

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 35839

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

1 10636

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 11790

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

2 9060

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

MMM,

1 20073

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

4 8947

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

2 19184

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

TCS,

5 15590

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

Which mode is used to operate the sequential file?

1153

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

1050

Can we change the password using ALTER? anyone tried and changed?

1952

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

1068

how do you reference the variable unblock file formats from cobol programs

1281

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3083

What is report-item in COBOL?

1096

can anybody post me about file-aid and changemen tools pls and give me reference if any mainframe guys are there

2416

How can we find that module can be called – whether DYNAMICALLY or STATICALLY?

1169

what is the use of outrecord?

2157

How you can read the file from bottom?

1086

What are the rules of the move verb?

1196

What happens when we move a comp-3 field to an edited (say z (9). Zz-)?

1321

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

6671

Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

1000

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