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 8850

SIGN TRAILING SEPARATE field occupy ?

3 23056

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

Syntel,

6 30335

What is file status 39 ?

JPMorgan Chase,

10 50553

What are the pertinent COBOL

IBM,

2570

What is COMP SYNC?

3 12581

What is the difference between CONTINUE & NEXT SENTENCE ?

2 8061

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

Patni, Syntel,

2 14581

What is SSRANGE, NOSSRANGE ?

5 59526

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

1 6043

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

1 6268

What is 88 level used for ?

2 17010

How do we get current date from system with century?

2 10872

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

TCS,

3 20422

Can the OCCURS clause be at the 01 level?

2 6797

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Why is it necessary that file needs to be opened in I-O mode for REWRITE?

1326

how to access the file from prodution from changeman tool and to submit a file to production

7549

Write a program to explain size error.

1199

) how do u code after getting data?

2152

Hi pls anybody tell me about " ANALYSIS DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND ESTIMATION OF TASK " (in real time project)."I want to update a sequential file in my project" for that purpose i need both structures i mean analysis document and estimation of task.

2147

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

1099

IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

2379

Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

1150

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1470

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?

1329

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

What is cobol?

1238

When is inspect verb is used in cobol?

1258

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

1122

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

2473

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