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 11856

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 41821

what is the difference between Normal vaiable and comp variable.

DELL,

5 12434

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

IBM,

11 37851

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 15207

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 32293

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

IBM,

4 15916

How to retain the Duplicates in the one records?

CS,

3 8797

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

UST,

3 9052

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 10976

1) can we display the index?

ADP, IBM,

3 26291

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

DCL, IBM,

6 10427

what is S04E error in jcl?

IBM, L&T,

11 68860

What is Static,Dynamic linking ?

2 5969

Can we use icetool in cobol program?

3 8005

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

848

Can a Search can be done on a table with or without Index?

922

Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

792

Why occurs cannot be used in 01 level in COBOL?

806

What is rmode(24)

766

I have a program with an Array of 5000 occurences which is being passed from 5 sub levels to the front end screen. Thess 5 programs using each 5*2 = 10 different arrays with size as 5000. This is causing the transaction to utilize more storage consupmtion. I am looking to reduce the storage consumption. As part of that initially i thought Dynamic array may solve my problem. After viewing the comments given i see its same as normal array. IS there any other way we can resolve this issue?

1309

How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

739

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

802

Is it possible that the redefines clause has different picture clauses compared to the one it redefined?

766

Program A (Normal COBBAT) calling a B Program (DB2COBOL, COBBATDB which is using a VSAM file. its a dynamic call. How we will handle VSAM file decleration in our from JCL from where we are running A PGM. And should we have PLAN for A pGM also. if possible can some one post a sample JCL. Thanks for help in advance.

5226

What is inspect in cobol ?

881

How to traceback if I am getting SOC7 or SOC4 abend? List down the steps

4940

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

5534

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

828

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

2121

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