COBOL Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

COBOL Interview Questions

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When the working storage variables get allocated? a.At Compile time b.At starting of the run time c.At end of the run time. d.None of these

Wipro,

6 13397

i want to use only first 100 records from a file.plz tell me how to write JCL for this(for read,copy,write operations).plz give me details of all posible JCL utilities?

CTS,

7 43704

what is the difference between Normal vaiable and comp variable.

DELL,

5 13717

How to read the last 100 records from a COBOL file. The file contains N number of records.

IBM,

11 40906

What is the significance of the PROGRAM-ID paragraph? If this name doesnt match with the name of the COBOL program, does it make a difference? Is the name specified in the PROGRAM-ID paragraph used as a name for the load module or any such thing?

IBM,

4 16343

How to find whether a Flat file is empty or not without Reading a file in COBOL Program. (not using JCL)

Bank Of America,

9 34282

How to display the index.(displacement from an array)

IBM,

4 17025

How to retain the Duplicates in the one records?

CS,

3 10059

How to retrive the 9th records out of ten records using the cobol program ?

UST,

3 10008

i have the following varibles in the working storage 05 ws-A PIC X(30) VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRESTUVWXYZ ' 05 WS-B REDEFINES WS-A 10 WS-B1 PIC X(10). 10 WS-B2 PIC 9(10). 10 WS-B3 PIC X(10). If I Display B1, B2 and B3 respectively, what is the value displayed in B2

9 12938

1) can we display the index?

ADP, IBM,

3 27483

Can we access the a[0] in the array ?

DCL, IBM,

6 11920

what is S04E error in jcl?

IBM, L&T,

11 72059

What is Static,Dynamic linking ?

2 6948

Can we use icetool in cobol program?

3 8965

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is cobol?

1211

What is amode(24)?

1204

How to remove 2 duplicate records and copy only one using job control language?

1185

What is the difference between Global and External Variables?

1327

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1185

if we display var1 then what will b displayed in below condition. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -10. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -11. " " " -12. " " " -13. -14 ... ... -19.

6498

How to find out the closest prime number of an input number? I believe it has something to do with SEARCH and COBOL Linear Array.

4130

how do you define single dimensional array and multidimensional array in your cobol?

1060

How to know whether the module is dynamical or statistical?

1098

What is redefines clause in COBOL?

1263

What are declaratives and what are their uses in cobol?

1159

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

2443

How to fetch 1000 error records from VSAM file(Eg: 1000000 records present) while getting SOC7 abend ?

2418

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1144

What are the cobol coding sheets?

1203

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