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

COBOL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

01 a pic s9(5) occupies how many bytes ?

Wipro,

9 30229

How can you declare the file ?

Wipro,

1 5111

How many divisions we have in Cobol ?

Wipro,

4 8671

What is XDC ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 18808

S9(5)V9(2) occupies how many bytes memory ?

Cap Gemini,

6 48829

How can you display the SPOOL information ?

2 5823

when SE37 SB37 and sd37 occurs how to increase the volume , primary quantity and secondary quantity?

Hewitt,

1 3878

how to know that the file has 300 records how to acess it?

Hewitt, TCS,

2214

where did you see the information regarding abend codes in jcl?

Hewitt,

1 5226

if we have a 10 steps how to override the 4th step in jcl?

Hewitt,

2 6818

how would you resolve sb37 and SE37?

Hewitt,

2 16681

if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?

Hewitt,

3 8785

how to display the dataset information?

2 6105

what is s013u000 for?

Hewitt,

1 5240

File status must be checked both while opening and reading the file or only while reading the file?

2 5384

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) how do u code after getting data?

2085

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

1186

How to use the same COBOL program in Batch and CICS on lines? explain with an example

2331

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1305

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between an obtain next and obtain first? Actually in which topic will we use dis???Plz explain it clearly

3103

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.

4124

What are the different data types in cobol?

1342

What happens when we move a comp-3 field to an edited (say z (9). Zz-)?

1332

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

1196

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3086

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

1040

What are 77 levels used for?

1061

Why occurs cannot be used in 01 level in COBOL?

1126

input 1 input2 ouput1 output2 output 3 1 re 300 1 re 200 1 re 300 3 rc 500 1 re 200 2 rr 400 1 re 300 2 rr 400 1 rc 400 3 rc 500 1 rc 400 2 rr 700 2 rr 700 5 tt 900 5 tt 900 2 inputs r in flat file and output 1 is matched records,ouptput2 is unmatched of input1,output3 is unmatched of input2! how vl u get the output files using sequential order and to check with each and every records! let me know the procedure division ?

2259

What is rmode(any) ?

1193

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