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

COBOL Interview Questions

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How do you compile cobol program..?

1 8075

what happens if we wont give timestamp in precompilation process ?

Covansys,

4 9741

what is the use of comp2 ? where can we use it with example ?

Covansys,

3 12909

what happens if we dont close cursor in db2-cobol pgm?

6 27745

what is the diff b/w select stsmt and cursor ?

2 6423

77 a pic x(4) value '1234' -----> instead of this 'abcd' 77 b pic 9(4) value zeros. move a to b what is the answers for both cases? IS it possible? Give me elementary move rules briefly......

8 12821

a pic s9(4) comp b pic s9(4) comp-3 c ???????????????? d ???????????????? move a to c add a+B giving d. what is ur declaration for c,d?

4 9590

The disposition parameter in the jcl is share ( DISP+SHR ) and the program opens file in extend mode what will happen?

Cognizant,

6 20656

I have a Main Program which is calling Sub-Program which is a DB2 pgm. What will happen if I am not closing the cursor used in the Sub-program? Please advise..

iGate,

3 11871

what is linkcard in cobol?

TCS,

1 10989

what happens of we dont give time stamp in precompilation process

2 5655

Whtz the specialty of 77 level number ?

Infosys,

2 9809

77 I pic 99 value 5 Perorm para-A I times. Para -A. move 10 to I. How many times the para-A will be executed.?

TCS,

9 13158

suppose there is one PF having two members PF1 PF2.PF has one unique key Emp ID.could you tell me uniqueness in PF will be effective across members as well ? assume emp iD 3333 is in member PF1 would same Emp id be exist also in member PF2 ?

Tesco HSC, Wipro,

2 7359

If i have a variable A pic 9(2) value 10 Compute A = a - 100 what will be the value of A and will there be any error becoz of the Negative value

CTS,

3 9333

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the difference between Structured COBOL Programming and Object Oriented COBOL programming?

1185

if we have " ibm mainframe ",in that how to remove first and last leading space eg:"ibm mainframe" like that the answer we need

1388

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

2544

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1283

What are different data types in cobol?

1391

What are the different rules of SORT operation?

1205

What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

1275

how do you reference the rrds file formats from cobol programs

1663

How do u write test cases?

2112

how to move the records from file to array table. give with code example

2733

what is s000 u4087 error? please give the all error codes in cobol,jcl.

17935

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

1199

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1230

A table has two indexes defined. Which one will be used by the SEARCH?

1331

There are 5 fields and 1000 records in a file. Unload it into an array. Write the syntax for declaration and how will you unload it.

1501

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