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 8365

how the control comes back from subprogram to mainprogram

IBM,

3 7255

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 9060

what is the difference between perform varying and perform until

TCS,

4 20291

what is SYNCHRONIZATION?

Syntel,

3 7618

give the examples of strings in cobol

IBM,

1 5148

diffrence between renames and redifnes with examples

IBM,

3 27217

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

TCS,

6 11426

give the examples for strings and unstrings in cobol

IBM,

2 7898

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

3 5517

what is Reentrancy and Quasi-reentrancy?

1 4887

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

2 6152

maximum of how many screens we can open in emulator

2 5570

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

3 6860

WHAT IS SOC3?HOW IT CAN BE RESOLVED?

1 21293

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Explain the configuration section of a cobol program with examples of syntax.

1128

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

1232

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the ksds file records into your cobol program?

1088

What is the difference between external and global variables in COBOL?

1367

I have File 1 occurs 5 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE and MECH). I have File 2 occurs 10 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE,CIVIL,CHEMICAL and MECH). In FIle 1 and FIle 2 , for matching Employee-DEPT (Only MECH) , we need to move entire records from file1 to file 2. We should not use 2D array. Your help is needed here.

1512

Write a program that uses move corresponding.

1079

How can you get the ksds file records into your cobol program?

1035

INREC AND OUTREC? HOW TO SPLIT 5K RECORDS TO DIFFERENT FILES IN A FILE IN COBOL? RESTART IN COBOL-DB2? ISOLATION LEVELS?

820

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between obtain next and obtain first?

1239

Explain what you understand by passing by value.

1103

What is the difference between next sentence and continue in cobol programing language?

1163

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

2990

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol? Could we utilize a similar copybook?

1180

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

1117

How do you reference the following file formats from cobol programs?

1126

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