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

COBOL Interview Questions

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In a COBOL II PERFORM statement, when is the conditional tested, before or after the perform execution?

3 8963

SIGN TRAILING SEPARATE field occupy ?

3 23201

How do you define a sort file in JCL that runs the COBOL program?

Syntel,

6 30559

What is file status 39 ?

JPMorgan Chase,

10 50896

What are the pertinent COBOL

IBM,

2629

What is COMP SYNC?

3 12717

What is the difference between CONTINUE & NEXT SENTENCE ?

2 8171

How to execute a set of JCL statements from a COBOL program?

Patni, Syntel,

2 14716

What is SSRANGE, NOSSRANGE ?

5 59841

What care has to be taken to force program to execute above 16 Meg line?

1 6167

What COBOL construct is the COBOL II EVALUATE meant to replace?

1 6342

What is 88 level used for ?

2 17112

How do we get current date from system with century?

2 10983

If you were passing a table via linkage, which is preferable - a subscript or an index?

TCS,

3 20590

Can the OCCURS clause be at the 01 level?

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

Can you please let me know the centre name of INS certification in Kolkata.

2288

2 input fles: 2 flat files, with different number of records. both are having unique key for each record and already sorted in ascending order . match these files using unique key and in output only matching key value has to be written. please procide cobol logic

2650

How can i load all the data from a file to Table (array) in cobol.How i manage the occurs clause with out reading the file.Any options avilable ? Please can any one help me it is urgent?

2634

What is the local-storage section?

1197

What are different data types in cobol?

1391

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

1214

Mention the guidelines to write a structured cobol program?

1145

IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

2432

how do you reference the variable unblock file formats from cobol programs

1382

what is search and searchall?what is the diffrence between them?give an best example?

6934

What is the use of intialize verb?

1305

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

1200

What are various search techniques in cobol? Explain.

1113

Why did you choose to work with ibm mainframe cobol programming?

1166

What are the access modes of START statement?

1331

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