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 7968

what happens if we wont give timestamp in precompilation process ?

Covansys,

4 9573

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

Covansys,

3 12758

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

6 27470

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

2 6328

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 12490

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 9437

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

Cognizant,

6 20379

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 11736

what is linkcard in cobol?

TCS,

1 10915

what happens of we dont give time stamp in precompilation process

2 5561

Whtz the specialty of 77 level number ?

Infosys,

2 9680

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 12802

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 7252

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 9167

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1279

What are the pertinent COBOL

2570

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol?

1248

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

2021

What are the different data types in cobol?

1441

) How do u handle errors in BMS macro?

1970

What are the different rules of SORT operation?

1140

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the kids file records into your cobol program?

1209

What are declaratives and what are their uses in cobol?

1205

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.

5748

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1224

input= ,,,, mainframe training ,,, hyderabad .... location.... output1=$ mainframe training in hyderabad location$ output2=**** mainframe training in hyderabad location ****. In this pgn when we give input considering the spaces the output is displayed in this format.Like in the place of ,,,, $ should be displayed likewise.So please helpmeout.

2221

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3053

Difference between array and sub-script ?

1661

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

1219

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