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

COBOL Interview Questions

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how to remove leading spaces and zeroes in a cobol variable.is there any easy way to do it

2 22110

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

IBM,

2327

In my table having 3000 Records. How can I delete the 500th row? (we don't know what is data inside the table)

Keane India Ltd,

3 10097

sample code for read a 2nd record from last in flatfile how can do?

iNautix,

4 14018

A cobol program to read a file , match it with other if. If match occurs then write it to an output file. If no match then no need to write it.Error log created by program to track any error.

1 7299

what is lrec=f,what is difference between f,fb,v,vb?what is default value?how do we came to know that records are in f,fb,v,vb?

IBM, Wipro,

2 21705

I had 100 records and i want to execute last three records by using cobol programming?what will be coding?

IBM,

4 11773

How do get the result of your program directly on your pc?

UST,

2295

What is diff between vsam and db2?what is advantage of db2 over vsam?which is best suited one?

Fidelity,

1 9323

Hi................... I have records like this aaaa cccc bbbb And i want output like this bbbb cccc aaaa How can it possible ?. Note:Please make sure records are in unsorted order. somebody plzzz help me.

1 8383

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

HCL,

1 22734

In file1 have 80 records are like d1,d2,d3......D80. File2 have 1000records are like a1d1,a1d2,a3d3.....Etc. I want matching records in file3 ? Plse tell me the matching logic???I want answer only in cobol ?Not using any tool or jcl?

CSC,

1 5246

have in 100 records in a file i want to read first 3 records and skip next 3 records and agan i want to read 3 records and again i want to skip 3 records...

ITC Indian Tobacco Company, PNP, TCS,

2 9982

i have n records in one file and in this file there is some fields and i want to count that how many sharma in my file so plz give the coding that how we read sharma ?

2 6656

have in 100 records in a flat file i want to move records like 1,3,5,7,9,11,.. to Output file1 and 2,4,6,8,10,12,14 .. records moved to Output file2..Pls Provide real time answer..

TCS,

5 12636

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

1129

Write a cobol program making use of the redefine clause.

1121

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

1359

What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

1222

What is redefines clause in COBOL?

1249

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol programming?

1179

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

1065

What is comp-1 and comp-2?

1185

What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

1522

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

1093

How to remove 2 duplicate records and copy only one using job control language?

1169

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

1079

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

1951

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

2099

What are declaratives and what are their uses in cobol?

1132

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