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 30570

How can you declare the file ?

Wipro,

1 5210

How many divisions we have in Cobol ?

Wipro,

4 8864

What is XDC ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 18975

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

Cap Gemini,

6 49091

How can you display the SPOOL information ?

2 5934

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

Hewitt,

1 3973

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

Hewitt, TCS,

2271

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

Hewitt,

1 5328

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

Hewitt,

2 6955

how would you resolve sb37 and SE37?

Hewitt,

2 16840

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

Hewitt,

3 8922

how to display the dataset information?

2 6238

what is s013u000 for?

Hewitt,

1 5316

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

2 5493

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

When is inspect verb is used in cobol?

1258

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1279

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search? What are the pertinent cobol commands?

1111

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

2473

What are declaratives and what are their uses in cobol?

1205

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

17880

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

1195

How you can read the file from bottom?

1158

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

1328

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?

1201

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

2221

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1224

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

1150

Which is the default, TEST BEFORE or TEST AFTER for a PERFORM statement?

1357

Write a program to enter and display the names of students in a class using the occurs clause.

1208

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