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

COBOL Interview Questions

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if a file has 1000 recods how copy the records from 1 to 100 records using sort

IBM,

4 8538

how the control comes back from subprogram to mainprogram

IBM,

3 7388

if a dataset is already created with fixed length but after that i want to change fixed length to variable length then how is it possible

IBM,

3 9207

what is the difference between perform varying and perform until

TCS,

4 20524

what is SYNCHRONIZATION?

Syntel,

3 7730

give the examples of strings in cobol

IBM,

1 5235

diffrence between renames and redifnes with examples

IBM,

3 27385

01 A pic 9(100) find record length of it

TCS,

6 11675

give the examples for strings and unstrings in cobol

IBM,

2 8046

if a>b continue display x. dispaly y. end-if display 1 display 2. display 3. what should be my output ?

3 5635

what is Reentrancy and Quasi-reentrancy?

1 4967

without performing any operations on a file how can i know whether it contains data or not

2 6268

maximum of how many screens we can open in emulator

2 5687

can we use COPY statement in w-s section? how?

3 7012

WHAT IS SOC3?HOW IT CAN BE RESOLVED?

1 21374

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In COBOL programming, what is PERFORM? What is VARYING?

1150

What is report-item in COBOL?

1154

1.Is it possible to move the data from 99.99 to 99v99? 2.What is the CICS-vsam Compilation process? 3.In My GDG 5 generation will be there GDG3 got an abend what will happen? 4.In my GDG first generation is +1 And I want to add the new generation what will happen previous generation? 5.How can you give the PIC clause below conditions A). s9 (reddy), B). s9 (5) occurs 5 times? 6.How override the proc from a particular step? and what is symbolic and override Procs?

5812

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

1152

What is the problem of ordered sequential files access?

1161

What is the difference between Global and External Variables?

1377

what is s000 u4087 error? please give the all error codes in cobol,jcl.

17880

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol?

1248

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

2219

What is the Purpose of Pointer in the string?

1081

Program A (Normal COBBAT) calling a B Program (DB2COBOL, COBBATDB which is using a VSAM file. its a dynamic call. How we will handle VSAM file decleration in our from JCL from where we are running A PGM. And should we have PLAN for A pGM also. if possible can some one post a sample JCL. Thanks for help in advance.

5744

How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

1134

I have program P1 which calls file F1 which has 100 records and following structure 001 .................. 002 .................. 003 .................. 098 .................... 099 ................... 100 .................... Now I want to read these files and write these records in file F2 in following manner. 001 ...... 051 ..... 002 ...... 052 ..... 003 ...... 053 ..... .......... ....... .......... ....... .......... ....... 048 ........ 098 ...... 049 .......... 099 ....... 050 .... 100 ......

12379

Can a Search can be done on a table with or without Index?

1289

What is comp-1 and comp-2?

1230

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