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

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 14726

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 13072

How do pass the values to the parameters in cobol

2 6229

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 7030

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

IBM,

1 4692

Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2

IBM,

2 6462

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

IBM,

2016

what are the working storage fields in BMS macro?

IBM,

2 3737

what is the difference between PA & PF keys?

IBM,

1 5314

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

IBM,

3 6668

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

IBM,

1 6402

how do u list the abended jobs?

IBM,

1 4461

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

IBM,

2069

What is ASKTIME, SUSPEND

IBM,

1 5067

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

IBM,

2202

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What is link edit in cobol?

1271

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

1202

I have one ps file in which there are 3 fileds emp_no,emp_name and leave_app.this ps file information give the detail of employee which is going to apply for leave.suppose emp_no=113430,emp_name=ajay,leave_app=1 that means he is going to apply for 1 day leave.and accordingling the table in db2 will be updated means if he has that no of leave in his account then he will get dat leave and updated acc. in table(leave_balance=previous leave present in table-leave_app).Now i want to check whther the updated result is correct or not by comparing the two ps file using IEBCOMPARE or icetool so what is going to be the two ps file and how its is going to be compare.

2498

if we have " ibm mainframe ",in that how to remove first and last leading space eg:"ibm mainframe" like that the answer we need

1388

Program A (Normal COBBAT) calling a B Program (DB2COBOL, COBBATDB which is using a VSAM file. its a dynamic call. How we will handle VSAM file decleration in our from JCL from where we are running A PGM. And should we have PLAN for A pGM also. if possible can some one post a sample JCL. Thanks for help in advance.

5797

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.

4213

What is amode(31)

1223

what is difference bt COND, REGION & TIME parameters at JOB & EXEC. give an exp.

9183

What is amode(24)?

1299

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

2441

Can we change the password using ALTER? anyone tried and changed?

2082

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

1266

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

2434

Difference between array and sub-script ?

1710

What is Pic 9v99 Indicates in COBOL?

1344

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