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 13833

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 44214

what is the difference between Normal vaiable and comp variable.

DELL,

5 14084

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

IBM,

11 41738

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 16645

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 34778

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

IBM,

4 17341

How to retain the Duplicates in the one records?

CS,

3 10329

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

UST,

3 10266

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 13454

1) can we display the index?

ADP, IBM,

3 27681

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

DCL, IBM,

6 12305

what is S04E error in jcl?

IBM, L&T,

11 72815

What is Static,Dynamic linking ?

2 7199

Can we use icetool in cobol program?

3 9240

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2 input fles: 2 flat files, with different number of records. both are having unique key for each record and already sorted in ascending order . match these files using unique key and in output only matching key value has to be written. please procide cobol logic

2651

What is amode(24)?

1299

What do you understand by psb and acb?

1182

What are the various section in data division and briefly explain them.

1255

what is the use of outrecord?

2276

In COBOL, what is the different between index and subscript?

1282

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

1343

What is rmode(any) ?

1334

How many bytes S(8) comp field occupy and its maximum value?

2192

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2185

Can you please let me know the centre name of INS certification in Kolkata.

2288

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

2202

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

1202

How to remove the spaces at the end of each record in the output file of variable length, via cobol program?

1220

Write a program to explain size error.

1240

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