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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 22156

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

IBM,

2336

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 10135

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

iNautix,

4 14083

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 7330

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 21740

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

IBM,

4 11828

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

UST,

2307

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

Fidelity,

1 9364

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 8548

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

HCL,

1 22774

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 5262

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 10009

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 6680

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 12700

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Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1180

what are decleratives in cobol?

2221

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

17818

What do you understand by psb and acb?

1076

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

1183

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

9036

How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

1097

What is amode(31)

1120

How do you define a variable of comp-1 and comp-2?

1157

what is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any)?

1104

How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

1149

I need to compare 3 variables(dates) and do some processing based on the earliest date. There could be more then 1 date record in any of the 3 fields. What is the best way to code this?

2240

How did the release of cobol/370 version 1.3 improve the performance of release 1.1?

1039

Have you used the sort in your project?for this type of questions any working on real time project give the eg. with real time scenario.

2402

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

1074

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