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 8844

SIGN TRAILING SEPARATE field occupy ?

3 23053

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

Syntel,

6 30329

What is file status 39 ?

JPMorgan Chase,

10 50540

What are the pertinent COBOL

IBM,

2569

What is COMP SYNC?

3 12577

What is the difference between CONTINUE & NEXT SENTENCE ?

2 8053

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

Patni, Syntel,

2 14570

What is SSRANGE, NOSSRANGE ?

5 59518

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

1 6039

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

1 6256

What is 88 level used for ?

2 17003

How do we get current date from system with century?

2 10865

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

TCS,

3 20414

Can the OCCURS clause be at the 01 level?

2 6792

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What the difference is between continue and next sentence?

1163

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

2317

What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

1203

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

2995

How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

1218

Write a cobol program making use of the redefine clause.

1180

can you please let me know if there is any walkins for COBOL/PLI/DB2/IMS/JCL in pune other than IBM and ITC infotech

2429

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1253

can anybody post me about file-aid and changemen tools pls and give me reference if any mainframe guys are there

2375

What are the various section in data division and briefly explain them.

1177

What is a scope terminator give example?

1109

What is amode(24)?

1234

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1467

Why would you use find and get rather than to obtain?

1187

how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

2385

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