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

COBOL Interview Questions

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01 a pic 9(3) value is 123 01 b pic 9(6) move a to b wht will be the value ? and 01 a pic x(6) value is abc 01 b pic x(3) move a to b wht will be the value ?

Patni,

7 10931

where do we use dyanamic call ? and where do we use static call pls give any example pls ?

Patni,

3 7470

01 a pic 9(9v99) 01 b pic 9(9.99) wht will be the stored vales in both cases

Patni,

6 12369

Size of a column has been changed in DB2 table (Suppose it was of 5 characters and later changed to 4 characters) and forgot to change the DCLGEN in COBOL program, what will happen during the execution of code? If the program Abends then what will be the error? If it doesn't abend then hpw the error can be catched?

IBM,

5 10818

I have a table with 3 dimensions like this : 01 ws-table 04 ws-page occurs 3 08 ws-column occurs 2. 12 ws-record occurs 20 pic x(40). How to code with PERFORM varying with 3 dimension...I forgot..

EDS,

2 6358

wht happens if we dnt give scope terminator ?

TCS,

4 8506

where will u code file status ?

TCS,

2 6633

how do u link sub pgm to main pgm ?

TCS,

2 7435

how to pass 100 to s9(4) how r they inserted ?

TCS,

3 9948

can we print comp 3 stmts how ?

Accenture, TCS,

3 13462

Difference between ps, esds

3 14113

Difference between lrecl, blksize among PS, PDS issues? i.e in jcl at dcb

1 5997

s9(18) comp-3:: What is the size of memory it takes internally?

4 9684

How to define variable 9(20) in COBOL, because compiler does not allow us to declare variables with Pic 9(18). Can anyone please let me know the answer... I know one answer to this question which is to use Compiler option Arith (Extend) during Compilation. It extends the maximum limit to 9(32)..Just wanted to know if there is any other way to extend this?

CSC, TCS,

4 18152

what is srange and nosrange pls reply to ths question ?

L&T,

2 7075

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

how do you reference the esds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1148

i made it to stage 3 of an interview process wednessday they will quiz my knowledge again face to face for an analyst role recruiter said it will be based on Business requirements system is cobol and good ideas what they might ask etc

2549

What rules are followed by the search verb.

1068

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

1123

Have you used the sort in your project?for this type of questions any working on real time project give the eg. with real time scenario.

2404

) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

1979

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1279

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3002

How do we get current date from system with century in COBOL?

1341

how can i see junk values in dclgen or in hostvariable of comp ?

2954

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

1060

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?

1614

What are the access modes of START statement?

1211

What is cobol?

1210

Describe the cobol database components?

1135

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