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

COBOL Interview Questions

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What is the maximum size of a 01 level item in COBOL I? in COBOL II?

IBM, RBS,

2 20258

How may divisions are there in JCL-COBOL?

IBM,

5 18776

What are the differences between OS VS COBOL and VS COBOL II?

IBM,

1 13966

How is sign stored in a comp-3 field?

7 22739

What does the IS NUMERIC clause establish ?

2 14068

What are the differences between COBOL and COBOL II?

CSC,

1 7939

Name the divisions in a COBOL program ?

7 17430

How can you submit a job from COBOL programs?

ITC Infotech,

2 12261

What is the point of the REPLACING option of a copy statement?

3 9735

What is the Purpose of POINTER Phrase in STRING command

3 17088

What does the INITIALIZE verb do?

1 11586

Can you call an OS VS COBOL pgm from a VS COBOL II pgm ?

Microsoft,

3 7824

When would you use in-line perform?

2 6765

How do you come out of an EVALUATE statement?

3 9209

what is the difference between external and global variables?

1 17602

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1081

What are the cobol coding sheets?

1265

how to convert the recors form vsam file to db2 table tru file aid

3262

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1224

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

1196

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

1199

Name the divisions, which are available in a cobol program?

1235

Have you used comp and comp-3 in your project? And how?

2482

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1467

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and PIC9v99?

1338

EXPLAIN MAIN FRAME TESTING PROCESS...HOW TO FIX THE MAINFRAME BUGS?

2541

What is amode(31)

1172

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

17879

IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

2377

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

2317

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