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

COBOL Interview Questions

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

Wipro,

9 30554

How can you declare the file ?

Wipro,

1 5207

How many divisions we have in Cobol ?

Wipro,

4 8860

What is XDC ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 18967

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

Cap Gemini,

6 49071

How can you display the SPOOL information ?

2 5932

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

Hewitt,

1 3968

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

Hewitt, TCS,

2269

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

Hewitt,

1 5326

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

Hewitt,

2 6949

how would you resolve sb37 and SE37?

Hewitt,

2 16836

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

Hewitt,

3 8919

how to display the dataset information?

2 6231

what is s013u000 for?

Hewitt,

1 5315

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

2 5492

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What are the access modes of START statement?

1272

What are literals?

1132

Write the code implementing the perform … varying.

1062

What is the use of intialize verb?

1254

What is redefines clause in COBOL?

1293

how to refer the data field?

2270

if we display var1 then what will b displayed in below condition. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -10. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -11. " " " -12. " " " -13. -14 ... ... -19.

6588

how do you reference the printer file formats from cobol programs

1219

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

1190

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 ......

12377

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3141

Can you please let me know the centre name of INS certification in Kolkata.

2244

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

1100

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

1147

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

2471

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