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COBOL Interview Questions

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ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. PLO. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 VAR1 PIC 9(2). 01 VAR2 PIC X(2). PROCEDURE DIVISION. ACCEPT VAR2. MOVE VAR2 TO VAR1. STOP RUN. if i give 'PI' in var2 then what will b output of progr. any abend?????

TCS,

6 14309

can u give result for the fallowing example... 05 a pic 9(2) 05 b redifines a pic x(2). move 'xy' to b. display a,b.

IBM,

10 12370

How do pass the values to the parameters in cobol

2 6032

SUPPOSE I HAVE 60 CHARACTERS STING. IN THAT I WANT FIND OUT HOW MANY TIMES 'A'(ASSUME)WILL REPEATED AND I HAVE TO PASS 'E' IN PLACE OF 'A'ALONG THAT STRING.

Wipro,

2 6839

) How do you access the migrate the data from production region to development region

IBM,

1 4519

Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2

IBM,

2 6238

How do you get the data to code the BMS macro?

IBM,

1932

what are the working storage fields in BMS macro?

IBM,

2 3519

what is the difference between PA & PF keys?

IBM,

1 5162

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

IBM,

3 6399

If I want to increase the Limit in GDG. What should I do?

IBM,

1 6245

how do u list the abended jobs?

IBM,

1 4309

)If there are 10 steps in GDG, if I want to refer the step2 after step5 . what should I do?

IBM,

1961

What is ASKTIME, SUSPEND

IBM,

1 4904

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

IBM,

2110

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Hi pls anybody tell me about " ANALYSIS DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND ESTIMATION OF TASK " (in real time project)."I want to update a sequential file in my project" for that purpose i need both structures i mean analysis document and estimation of task.

2096

How do you reference the fixed block file formats from cobol programs

1175

I have to write to a outfile where the number of records in that file should be the header of that file using IMS.. can anyone help me in this issue

2495

What do you understand by psb and acb?

1074

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

1377

Give some examples of command terminators?

1207

how we sort two input files based on a common column and giving one o/p file please send me the coding logic?

2087

What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

1132

Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

1212

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1030

What are the rules of the move verb?

1213

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

1045

How to fetch 1000 error records from VSAM file(Eg: 1000000 records present) while getting SOC7 abend ?

2410

I have a File that has duplicate records. I need only those records that occur more than thrice.?

9765

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.

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