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

COBOL Interview Questions

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Can we dynamically increase the size of occurs clause? i.e In case I an not sure of the size of array and want to increase the size at run time.If yes , how?

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I have a variable account-number declared as comp-3, s9(10) comp-3 in a file. How do i find a particular account number say 123456 in that file?

3 8231

Suppose i want to declare a binary comp fild of 7 byte .how to write?

IBM,

6 11336

I am sending values a and b with pic x(10) and pic x(10) by using call statement. In linkage section, I am receiving values with pic x(10) and pic x(11). Will my program fail? will it be compile error or run time abend?

3 7178

What is JOBLIB and STEPLIB in JCL? what is the purpose of using it?

1 16607

is this below syntax correct? CALL 'subprg' using A,B Please help

2 5657

COBOL Snippet: Tell where the control will when the below code execute IF (A=B) CONTINUE ELSE NEXT SENTENCE PERFORM END-IF.

HCL,

7 13921

can i give 9(10) in comp 3 instead of s9(10) ? if i can give wht would be ths ans

DELL,

2 7512

wht is load module and object module ?

DELL, TCS,

2 14816

wht is structured cobol pgm and non structred cobol pgm ?

CTS, DELL,

1 3989

how can we get current dat and time thru cobol pgm

DELL,

3 11558

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

DELL,

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can any one give good example for cond 88 level number and for renames pls urgent dudes ?

DELL,

3 8774

how will u code parm parameter and where pls ?

DELL,

3 7874

wht is the difference between goto and perform stmts

DELL,

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explain sorting techniques in cobol program?

1202

what is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any)?

1149

How to find out the closest prime number of an input number? I believe it has something to do with SEARCH and COBOL Linear Array.

4171

How to read the 2nd last record of a VSAM file? (The file size is huge and we don't know the key)

3263

Can we redefine the field of x(200) to less than 200?

1377

What is inspect in cobol ?

1302

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

1191

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

1152

input 1 input2 ouput1 output2 output 3 1 re 300 1 re 200 1 re 300 3 rc 500 1 re 200 2 rr 400 1 re 300 2 rr 400 1 rc 400 3 rc 500 1 rc 400 2 rr 700 2 rr 700 5 tt 900 5 tt 900 2 inputs r in flat file and output 1 is matched records,ouptput2 is unmatched of input1,output3 is unmatched of input2! how vl u get the output files using sequential order and to check with each and every records! let me know the procedure division ?

2299

i have 10 names in an array and my name is one of them also array is not in sorted order i need to display my name using index how will i do this

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How you can characterize tables in cobol?

1203

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

2598

how do you reference the printer file formats from cobol programs

1219

i need a small 3d program using inline and outline.

2212

What is comp-1 and comp-2?

1230

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